Leudeman's-on-the-river Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDDC EDEDCBBC FGFGCBBC BHBHCIIC FJFJCCCC BKKBCBBC| Toward even when the day leans down | A |
| To kiss the upturned face of night | B |
| Out just beyond the loud voiced town | A |
| I know a spot of calm delight | B |
| Like crimson arrows from a quiver | C |
| The red rays pierce the water flowing | D |
| While we go dreaming singing rowing | D |
| To Leudeman's on the River | C |
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| The hills like some glad mocking bird | E |
| Send back our laughter and our singing | D |
| While faint and yet more faint is heard | E |
| The steeple bells all sweetly ringing | D |
| Some message did the winds deliver | C |
| To each glad heart that August night | B |
| All heard but all heard not aright | B |
| By Leudeman's on the River | C |
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| Night falls as in some foreign clime | F |
| Between the hills that slope and rise | G |
| So dusk the shades at landing time | F |
| We could not see each other's eyes | G |
| We only saw the moonbeams quiver | C |
| Far down upon the stream that night | B |
| The new moon gave but little light | B |
| By Leudeman's on the River | C |
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| How dusky were those paths that led | B |
| Up from the river to the hall | H |
| The tall trees branching overhead | B |
| Invite the early shades that fall | H |
| In all the glad blithe world oh never | C |
| Were hearts more free from care than when | I |
| We wandered through those walks we ten | I |
| By Leudeman's on the River | C |
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| So soon so soon the changes came | F |
| This August day we two alone | J |
| On that same river not the same | F |
| Dream of a night forever flown | J |
| Strange distances have come to sever | C |
| The hearts that gayly beat in pleasure | C |
| Long miles we cannot cross or measure | C |
| From Leudeman's on the River | C |
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| We'll pluck two leaves dear friend to day | B |
| The green the russet seems it strange | K |
| So soon so soon the leaves can change | K |
| Ah me so runs all night away | B |
| This night wind chills me and I shiver | C |
| The summer time is almost past | B |
| One more good bye perhaps the last | B |
| To Leudeman's on the River | C |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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