In The Shadows Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEDDF BBGHHG CCIJJI CCKCCK DDLDDL DDMNNM DDIDDI NNODDO| I am sailing to the leeward | A |
| Where the current runs to seaward | A |
| Soft and slow | B |
| Where the sleeping river grasses | C |
| Brush my paddle as it passes | C |
| To and fro | B |
| - | |
| On the shore the heat is shaking | D |
| All the golden sands awaking | D |
| In the cove | E |
| And the quaint sand piper winging | D |
| O'er the shallows ceases singing | D |
| When I move | F |
| - | |
| On the water's idle pillow | B |
| Sleeps the overhanging willow | B |
| Green and cool | G |
| Where the rushes lift their burnished | H |
| Oval heads from out the tarnished | H |
| Emerald pool | G |
| - | |
| Where the very silence slumbers | C |
| Water lilies grow in numbers | C |
| Pure and pale | I |
| All the morning they have rested | J |
| Amber crowned and pearly crested | J |
| Fair and frail | I |
| - | |
| Here impossible romances | C |
| Indefinable sweet fancies | C |
| Cluster round | K |
| But they do not mar the sweetness | C |
| Of this still September fleetness | C |
| With a sound | K |
| - | |
| I can scarce discern the meeting | D |
| Of the shore and stream retreating | D |
| So remote | L |
| For the laggard river dozing | D |
| Only wakes from its reposing | D |
| Where I float | L |
| - | |
| Where the river mists are rising | D |
| All the foliage baptizing | D |
| With their spray | M |
| There the sun gleams far and faintly | N |
| With a shadow soft and saintly | N |
| In its ray | M |
| - | |
| And the perfume of some burning | D |
| Far off brushwood ever turning | D |
| To exhale | I |
| All its smoky fragrance dying | D |
| In the arms of evening lying | D |
| Where I sail | I |
| - | |
| My canoe is growing lazy | N |
| In the atmosphere so hazy | N |
| While I dream | O |
| Half in slumber I am guiding | D |
| Eastward indistinctly gliding | D |
| Down the stream | O |
Emily Pauline Johnson
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