The Unnamed Lake Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIK LMLM NKNK AOAO PQPQ| It sleeps among the thousand hills | A |
| Where no man ever trod | B |
| And only nature's music fills | A |
| The silences of God | B |
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| Great mountains tower above its shore | C |
| Green rushes fringe its brim | D |
| And over its breast for evermore | C |
| The wanton breezes skim | D |
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| Dark clouds that intercept the sun | E |
| Go there in Spring to weep | F |
| And there when Autumn days are done | E |
| White mists lie down to sleep | F |
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| Sunrise and sunset crown with gold | G |
| The pinks of ageless stone | H |
| Her winds have thundered from of old | G |
| And storms have set their throne | H |
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| No echoes of the world afar | I |
| Disturb it night or day | J |
| The sun and shadow moon and star | I |
| Pass and repass for aye | K |
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| 'Twas in the grey of early dawn | L |
| When first the lake we spied | M |
| And fragments of a cloud were drawn | L |
| Half down the mountain side | M |
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| Along the shore a heron flew | N |
| And from a speck on high | K |
| That hovered in the deepening blue | N |
| We heard the fish hawk's cry | K |
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| Among the cloud capt solitudes | A |
| No sound the silence broke | O |
| Save when in whispers down the woods | A |
| The guardian mountains spoke | O |
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| Through tangled brush and dewy brake | P |
| Returning whence we came | Q |
| We passed in silence and the lake | P |
| We left without a name | Q |
Frederick George Scott
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