The Isle Of Founts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII JKJKLL MNONPP QRQRSS TUVUBB WAWAGG XKXIEE RYRYZZ GKGKA2A2 B2C2D2C2E2E2 F2GF2GCCSon of the stranger wouldst thou take | A |
O'er yon blue hills thy lonely way | B |
To reach the still and shining lake | A |
Along whose banks the west winds play | B |
Let no vain dreams thy heart beguile | C |
Oh seek thou not the Fountain Isle | C |
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Lull but the mighty serpent king | D |
'Midst the grey rocks his old domain | E |
Ward but the cougar's deadly spring | D |
Thy step that lake's green shore may gain | E |
And the bright Isle when all is pass'd | F |
Shall vainly meet thine eye at last | F |
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Yes there with all its rainbow streams | G |
Clear as within thine arrow's flight | H |
The Isle of Founts the Isle of dreams | G |
Floats on the wave in golden light | H |
And lovely will the shadows be | I |
Of groves whose fruit is not for thee | I |
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And breathings from their sunny flowers | J |
Which are not of the things that die | K |
And singing voices from their bowers | J |
Shall greet thee in the purple sky | K |
Soft voices e'en like those that dwell | L |
Far in the green reed's hollow cell | L |
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Or hast thou heard the sounds that rise | M |
From the deep chambers of the earth | N |
The wild and wondrous melodies | O |
To which the ancient rocks gave birth | N |
Like that sweet song of hidden caves | P |
Shall swell those wood notes o'er the waves | P |
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The emerald waves they take their hue | Q |
And image from that sunbright shore | R |
But wouldst thou launch thy light canoe | Q |
And wouldst thou ply thy rapid oar | R |
Before thee hadst thou morning's speed | S |
The dreamy land should still recede | S |
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Yet on the breeze thou still wouldst hear | T |
The music of its flowering shades | U |
And ever should the sound be near | V |
Of founts that ripple through its glades | U |
The sound and sight and flashing ray | B |
Of joyous waters in their play | B |
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But woe for him who sees them burst | W |
With their bright spray showers to the lake | A |
Earth has no spring to quench the thirst | W |
That semblance in his soul shall wake | A |
For ever pouring through his dreams | G |
The gush of those untasted streams | G |
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Bright bright in many a rocky urn | X |
The waters of our deserts lie | K |
Yet at their source his lip shall burn | X |
Parch'd with the fever's agony | I |
From the blue mountains to the main | E |
Our thousand floods may roll in vain | E |
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E'en thus our hunters came of yore | R |
Back from their long and weary quest | Y |
Had they not seen th' untrodden shore | R |
And could they 'midst our wilds find rest | Y |
The lightning of their glance was fled | Z |
They dwelt amongst us as the dead | Z |
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They lay beside our glittering rills | G |
With visions in their darken'd eye | K |
Their joy was not amidst the hills | G |
Where elk and deer before us fly | K |
Their spears upon the cedar hung | A2 |
Their javelins to the wind were flung | A2 |
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They bent no more the forest bow | B2 |
They arm'd not with the warrior band | C2 |
The moons wan'd o'er them dim and slow | D2 |
They left us for the spirit's land | C2 |
Beneath our pines yon greensward heap | E2 |
Shows where the restless found their sleep | E2 |
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Son of the stranger if at eve | F2 |
Silence be 'midst us in thy place | G |
Yet go not where the mighty leave | F2 |
The strength of battle and of chase | G |
Let no vain dreams thy heart beguile | C |
Oh seek thou not the Fountain Isle | C |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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