The Bather Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCACD EFGEGF HIJHKI LMNLNM OPEOEP QRSQSR TUOOOU VOWVOW OOXOXO YZA2YA2Z B2UC2B2C2U| Standing here alone | A |
| Let me pause awhile | B |
| Drinking in the light | C |
| Ere with plunge of white limbs prone | A |
| I raise the sparkling flight | C |
| Of foam flakes volatile | D |
| - | |
| Now in natural guise | E |
| I woo the deathless breeze | F |
| Through me rushing fleet | G |
| The joy of life in swift surprise | E |
| I grow with growing wheat | G |
| And burgeon with the trees | F |
| - | |
| Lo I fetter Time | H |
| So he cannot run | I |
| And in Eden again | J |
| Flash of memory sublime | H |
| Dwell naked without stain | K |
| Beneath the dazed sun | I |
| - | |
| All yields brotherhood | L |
| Each least thing that lives | M |
| Wrought of primal spores | N |
| Deepens this wild sense of good | L |
| That on these shaggy shores | N |
| Return to nature gives | M |
| - | |
| Oh that some solitude | O |
| Were ours in woodlands deep | P |
| Where with lucent eyes | E |
| Living lithe and limber thewed | O |
| Our life's shape might arise | E |
| Like mountains fresh from sleep | P |
| - | |
| To sounds of water falling | Q |
| Hosts of delicate dreams | R |
| Should lull us and allure | S |
| With a dim enchanted calling | Q |
| Blameless to live and pure | S |
| Like these sweet springs and streams | R |
| - | |
| But in a wilderness | T |
| Alone may such life be | U |
| Why of all things framed | O |
| In my human form confessed | O |
| Should I be ashamed | O |
| And blush for honesty | U |
| - | |
| Rounded strengthy limbs | V |
| That knit me to my kind | O |
| Your glory turns to grief | W |
| Shall I for my soul sing hymns | V |
| Yet for my body find | O |
| No clear divine belief | W |
| - | |
| Let me rather die | O |
| Than by faith uphold | O |
| Dogmas weak that dare | X |
| The form that once Christ wore deny | O |
| Afraid with him to share | X |
| A purity twofold | O |
| - | |
| Yet while sin remains | Y |
| On this saddened earth | Z |
| Humbly walk my ways | A2 |
| For my garments are as chains | Y |
| And I fear to praise | A2 |
| My frame with careless mirth | Z |
| - | |
| Joy and penance go | B2 |
| Hand in hand I see | U |
| Would I could live so well | C2 |
| Soul of me should never know | B2 |
| When my coverings fell | C2 |
| Nor feel this nudity | U |
George Parsons Lathrop
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