Wave-won Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGHIIH JJKLLK MMNOON PPCQQC CCRSSS| To night I hunger so | A |
| Beloved one to know | A |
| If you recall and crave again the dream | B |
| That haunted our canoe | C |
| And wove its witchcraft through | C |
| Our hearts as 'neath the northern night we sailed the northern stream | B |
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| Ah dear if only we | D |
| As yesternight could be | D |
| Afloat within that light and lonely shell | E |
| To drift in silence till | F |
| Heart hushed and lulled and still | F |
| The moonlight through the melting air flung forth its fatal spell | E |
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| The dusky summer night | G |
| The path of gold and white | G |
| The moon had cast across the river's breast | H |
| The shores in shadows clad | I |
| The far away half sad | I |
| Sweet singing of the whip poor will all soothed our souls to rest | H |
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| You trusted I could feel | J |
| My arm as strong as steel | J |
| So still your upturned face so calm your breath | K |
| While circling eddies curled | L |
| While laughing rapids whirled | L |
| From boulder unto boulder till they dashed themselves to death | K |
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| Your splendid eyes aflame | M |
| Put heaven's stars to shame | M |
| Your god like head so near my lap was laid | N |
| My hand is burning where | O |
| It touched your wind blown hair | O |
| As sweeping to the rapids verge I changed my paddle blade | N |
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| The boat obeyed my hand | P |
| Till wearied with its grand | P |
| Wild anger all the river lay aswoon | C |
| And as my paddle dipped | Q |
| Thro' pools of pearl it slipped | Q |
| And swept beneath a shore of shade beneath a velvet moon | C |
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| To night again dream you | C |
| Our spirit winged canoe | C |
| Is listening to the rapids purling past | R |
| Where in delirium reeled | S |
| Our maddened hearts that kneeled | S |
| To idolize the perfect world to taste of love at last | S |
Emily Pauline Johnson
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