Fairhaven Bay Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EECC FFGG HHIJ KKLL MMNN OOPP AQRR SSTT UUVV| I push on through the shaggy wood | A |
| I round the hill 't is here it stood | A |
| And there beyond the crumbled walls | B |
| The shining Concord slowly crawls | B |
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| Yet seems to make a passing stay | C |
| And gently spreads its lilied bay | C |
| Curbed by this green and reedy shore | D |
| Up toward the ancient homestead's door | D |
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| But dumbly sits the shattered house | E |
| And makes no answer man and mouse | E |
| Long since forsook it and decay | C |
| Chokes its deep heart with ashes gray | C |
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| On what was once a garden ground | F |
| Dull red bloomed sorrels now abound | F |
| And boldly whistles the shy quail | G |
| Within the vacant pasture's pale | G |
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| Ah strange and savage where he shines | H |
| The sun seems staring through those pines | H |
| That once the vanished home could bless | I |
| With intimate sweet loneliness | J |
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| The ignorant elastic sod | K |
| The feet of them that daily trod | K |
| Its roods hath utterly forgot | L |
| The very fire place knows them not | L |
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| For in the weedy cellar thick | M |
| The ruined chimney's mass of brick | M |
| Lies strown Wide heaven with such an ease | N |
| Dost thou too lose the thought of these | N |
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| Yet I although I know not who | O |
| Lived here in years that voiceless grew | O |
| Ere I was born and never can | P |
| Am moved because I am a man | P |
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| Oh glorious gift of brotherhood | A |
| Oh sweet elixir in the blood | Q |
| That makes us live with those long dead | R |
| Or hope for those that shall be bred | R |
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| Hereafter No regret can rob | S |
| My heart of this delicious throb | S |
| No thought of fortunes haply wrecked | T |
| Nor pang for nature's wild neglect | T |
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| And though the hearth be cracked and cold | U |
| Though ruin all the place enfold | U |
| These ashes that have lost their name | V |
| Shall warm my life with lasting flame | V |
George Parsons Lathrop
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