Sunset On The Mississippi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED BFGF HBIB JBAB BKLK AMAM CDAD EAJA AMAM| O beautiful hills in the purple light | A |
| That shadow the western sky | B |
| I dream of you oft in the silent night | A |
| As the golden days go by | B |
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| The river that flows at my longing feet | C |
| Is tinged with a deeper glow | D |
| But the song that it sings is as sad to day | E |
| As it was in the long ago | D |
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| The far off clouds in the far off sky | B |
| Are tinted with gold and red | F |
| But the lesson they tell to the hearts of men | G |
| Is a lesson that never is said | F |
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| The star crowned night in her sable plumes | H |
| Is veiling the eastern sky | B |
| And she trails her robes in the dying fires | I |
| That far in the west do lie | B |
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| A single gem from her circlet old | J |
| Is lost as she wanders by | B |
| And the beautiful star with its golden light | A |
| Shines out in the lonely sky | B |
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| O beautiful star in the misty sky | B |
| My soul would take wings with tee | K |
| But you sail away in your golden seas | L |
| With never a thought for me | K |
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| O sun crowned hills in the purple light | A |
| I could sit at your feet forever | M |
| But you fade away in the shadowy night | A |
| And I'll see you again ah never | M |
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| Dark river that flows at my longing feet | C |
| I list to your music low | D |
| But the song that you sing brings me thoughts to night | A |
| Of the beautiful long ago | D |
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| And my soul grows sad as I think of the day | E |
| That radiant day of light | A |
| When the sun went down in a glory of gold | J |
| 'Neath the pitiless shadows of night | A |
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| Farewell ye hills in the purple light | A |
| Farewell to your glory forever | M |
| You fade away in the silent night | A |
| And I'll see you again ah never | M |
Fannie Isabelle Sherrick
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