Shadow River Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBBBBB CDDEEEF ABBGGGA HIIJJJH KLLMMMK ANNOOOA| MUSKOKA | A |
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| A stream of tender gladness | B |
| Of filmy sun and opal tinted skies | B |
| Of warm midsummer air that lightly lies | B |
| In mystic rings | B |
| Where softly swings | B |
| The music of a thousand wings | B |
| That almost tones to sadness | B |
| - | |
| Midway 'twixt earth and heaven | C |
| A bubble in the pearly air I seem | D |
| To float upon the sapphire floor a dream | D |
| Of clouds of snow | E |
| Above below | E |
| Drift with my drifting dim and slow | E |
| As twilight drifts to even | F |
| - | |
| The little fern leaf bending | A |
| Upon the brink its green reflection greets | B |
| And kisses soft the shadow that it meets | B |
| With touch so fine | G |
| The border line | G |
| The keenest vision can't define | G |
| So perfect is the blending | A |
| - | |
| The far fir trees that cover | H |
| The brownish hills with needles green and gold | I |
| The arching elms o'erhead vinegrown and old | I |
| Repictured are | J |
| Beneath me far | J |
| Where not a ripple moves to mar | J |
| Shades underneath or over | H |
| - | |
| Mine is the undertone | K |
| The beauty strength and power of the land | L |
| Will never stir or bend at my command | L |
| But all the shade | M |
| Is marred or made | M |
| If I but dip my paddle blade | M |
| And it is mine alone | K |
| - | |
| O pathless world of seeming | A |
| O pathless life of mine whose deep ideal | N |
| Is more my own than ever was the real | N |
| For others Fame | O |
| And Love's red flame | O |
| And yellow gold I only claim | O |
| The shadows and the dreaming | A |
Emily Pauline Johnson
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