Bride Brook Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GDGD HIHI JKJK LMLM NONJ PQPQ RSRS TUTV WXWX YZYZ A2B2A2B2 SC2SC2 D2E2D2E2 F2G2F2F2 H2I2H2I2 QJ2QJ2 K2L2K2L2 F2M2F2H2 N2F2N2F2| Wide as the sky Time spreads his hand | A |
| And blindly over us there blows | B |
| A swarm of years that fill the land | A |
| Then fade and are as fallen snows | B |
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| Behold the flakes rush thick and fast | C |
| Or are they years that come between | D |
| When peering back into the past | C |
| I search the legendary scene | D |
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| Nay Marshaled down the open coast | E |
| Fearless of that low rampart's frown | F |
| The winter's white winged footless host | E |
| Beleaguers ancient Saybrook town | F |
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| And when the settlers wake they stare | G |
| On woods half buried white and green | D |
| A smothered world an empty air | G |
| Never had such deep drifts been seen | D |
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| But Snow lies light upon my heart | H |
| An thou said merry Jonathan Rudd | I |
| Wilt wed me winter shall depart | H |
| And love like spring for us shall bud | I |
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| Nay how said Mary may that be | J |
| No minister nor magistrate | K |
| Is here to join us solemnly | J |
| And snow banks bar us every gate | K |
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| Winthrop at Pequot Harbor lies | L |
| He laughed And with the morrow's sun | M |
| He faced the deputy's dark eyes | L |
| How soon sir may the rite be done | M |
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| At Saybrook There the power's not mine | N |
| Said he But at the brook we'll meet | O |
| That ripples down the boundary line | N |
| There you may wed and Heaven shall see't | J |
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| Forth went next day the bridal train | P |
| Through vistas dreamy with gray light | Q |
| The waiting woods the open plain | P |
| Arrayed in consecrated white | Q |
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| Received and ushered them along | R |
| The very beasts before them fled | S |
| Charmed by the spell of inward song | R |
| These lovers' hearts around them spread | S |
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| Four men with netted foot gear shod | T |
| Bore the maid's carrying chair aloft | U |
| She swayed above as roses nod | T |
| On the lithe stem their bloom weight soft | V |
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| At last beside the brook they stood | W |
| With Winthrop and his followers | X |
| The maid in flake embroidered hood | W |
| The magistrate well cloaked in furs | X |
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| That parting showed a glimpse beneath | Y |
| Of ample throat encircling ruff | Z |
| As white as some wind gathered wreath | Y |
| Of snow quilled into plait and puff | Z |
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| A few grave words a question asked | A2 |
| Eyelids that with the answer fell | B2 |
| Like falling petals form that tasked | A2 |
| Brief time and so was wrought the spell | B2 |
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| Then Brooklet Winthrop smiled and said | S |
| Frost's finger on thy lip makes dumb | C2 |
| The voice wherewith thou shouldst have sped | S |
| These lovers on their way But come | C2 |
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| Henceforth forever be thou known | D2 |
| By memory of this day's fair bride | E2 |
| So shall thy slender music's moan | D2 |
| Sweeter into the ocean glide | E2 |
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| Then laughed they all and sudden beams | F2 |
| Of sunshine quivered through the sky | G2 |
| Below the ice the unheard stream's | F2 |
| Clear heart thrilled on in ecstasy | F2 |
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| And lo a visionary blush | H2 |
| Stole warmly o'er the voiceless wild | I2 |
| And in her rapt and wintry hush | H2 |
| The lonely face of Nature smiled | I2 |
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| Ah Time what wilt thou Vanished quite | Q |
| Is all that tender vision now | J2 |
| And like lost snow flakes in the night | Q |
| Mute are the lovers as their vow | J2 |
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| And O thou little careless brook | K2 |
| Hast thou thy tender trust forgot | L2 |
| Her modest memory forsook | K2 |
| Whose name known once thou utterest not | L2 |
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| Spring wakes the rill's blithe minstrelsy | F2 |
| In willow bough or alder bush | M2 |
| Birds sing o'er golden filigree | F2 |
| Of pebbles 'neath the flood's clear gush | H2 |
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| But none can tell us of that name | N2 |
| More than the Mary Men still say | F2 |
| Bride Brook in honor of her fame | N2 |
| But all the rest has passed away | F2 |
George Parsons Lathrop
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