On The Hilltop Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB AACCDDEEFFDGHHAAIIEE JJEEKKLLMMNNOOPPQQRR SSTTUUVVDDWWNNEEEEAA| By the margent of the sea | A |
| I would build myself a home | B |
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| - | |
| Not by the margent of the sea | A |
| But on the hilltop I would be | A |
| My little house a mossy den | C |
| Between me and the world of men | C |
| Beside me dips a wide ravine | D |
| Covered with a flowery screen | D |
| Far round me rise a band of hills | E |
| Whose voices reach me by their rills | E |
| Or deep susurrus of the wood | F |
| That stands in stately brotherhood | F |
| Upholding one vast web of green | D |
| Whereunder foot has never been | G |
| The pine and elm the birch and oak | H |
| And thus their voices me invoke | H |
| If you would on the hilltop be | A |
| We cannot share your misery | A |
| Cease cease this moaning for the Past | I |
| The law of grief can never last | I |
| When springtime brings anemones | E |
| Upon the sod I take my ease | E |
| Or search for Arethusa's pink | J |
| Along the torrent's ragged brink | J |
| Or in the tinted April hours | E |
| I watch the curtain of the showers | E |
| That fall beneath a lurking cloud | K |
| Which for a moment throws a shroud | K |
| On the sun's arrows in the west | L |
| Till it blaze up a golden crest | L |
| The young moon bends her crescent horn | M |
| Against the lingering summer morn | M |
| Then riding down the starry sky | N |
| She follows me till night goes by | N |
| And when the dawn breaks on yon town | O |
| I think the sleepers lying down | O |
| Must rise to shoulder dismal care | P |
| Methinks that once was but my fare | P |
| But I upon the hilltop yet | Q |
| Am free from every tangling fret | Q |
| So ever thus in peace of mind | R |
| I give my pity to my kind | R |
| For me this noble solitude | S |
| And as I face its varying mood | S |
| Reflected in its every show | T |
| Some higher self I come to know | T |
| See autumn here with color glad | U |
| Not like the poets russet clad | U |
| But scarlet umber green and gold | V |
| Then in a breath I must behold | V |
| The autumn winds tear down my screen | D |
| And leave me not a leaf to glean | D |
| The snow will cover glen and height | W |
| And all my hilltop glisten white | W |
| I see the crystal atoms fly | N |
| Under the dome of this gray sky | N |
| Like gnomes are they these spectral gleams | E |
| Or shall I guess them only dreams | E |
| Whatever is the truth I say | E |
| If up and down the world I stray | E |
| Still on the hilltop I would be | A |
| Not by the margent of the sea | A |
Elizabeth Stoddard
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