In The Shadows Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEDDF BBGHHG CCIJJI CCKCCK DDLDDL DDMNNM DDIDDI NNODDO

I am sailing to the leewardA
Where the current runs to seawardA
Soft and slowB
Where the sleeping river grassesC
Brush my paddle as it passesC
To and froB
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On the shore the heat is shakingD
All the golden sands awakingD
In the coveE
And the quaint sand piper wingingD
O'er the shallows ceases singingD
When I moveF
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On the water's idle pillowB
Sleeps the overhanging willowB
Green and coolG
Where the rushes lift their burnishedH
Oval heads from out the tarnishedH
Emerald poolG
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Where the very silence slumbersC
Water lilies grow in numbersC
Pure and paleI
All the morning they have restedJ
Amber crowned and pearly crestedJ
Fair and frailI
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Here impossible romancesC
Indefinable sweet fanciesC
Cluster roundK
But they do not mar the sweetnessC
Of this still September fleetnessC
With a soundK
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I can scarce discern the meetingD
Of the shore and stream retreatingD
So remoteL
For the laggard river dozingD
Only wakes from its reposingD
Where I floatL
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Where the river mists are risingD
All the foliage baptizingD
With their sprayM
There the sun gleams far and faintlyN
With a shadow soft and saintlyN
In its rayM
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And the perfume of some burningD
Far off brushwood ever turningD
To exhaleI
All its smoky fragrance dyingD
In the arms of evening lyingD
Where I sailI
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My canoe is growing lazyN
In the atmosphere so hazyN
While I dreamO
Half in slumber I am guidingD
Eastward indistinctly glidingD
Down the streamO

Emily Pauline Johnson



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