The Croton Ode Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDE FGFGDHDH IJIJDKDK HLMLBNBN OPOFQRQS BQBQOOOO TUTUVWVX| Written at the request of the corporation of the city of New York | A |
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| Gushing from this living fountain | B |
| Music pours a falling strain | C |
| As the goddess of the mountain | B |
| Comes with all her sparkling train | C |
| From her grotto springs advancing | D |
| Glittering in her feathery spray | E |
| Woodland fays beside her dancing | D |
| She pursues her winding way | E |
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| Gently o'er the rippling water | F |
| In her coral shallop bright | G |
| Glides the rock king's dove eyed daughter | F |
| Decked in robes of virgin white | G |
| Nymphs and naiads sweetly smiling | D |
| Urge her bark with pearly hand | H |
| Merrily the sylph beguiling | D |
| From the nooks of fairy land | H |
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| Swimming on the snow curled billow | I |
| See the river spirits fair | J |
| Lay their cheeks as on a pillow | I |
| With the foam beads in their hair | J |
| Thus attended hither wending | D |
| Floats the lovely oread now | K |
| Eden's arch of promise bending | D |
| Over her translucent brow | K |
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| Hail the wanderer from a far land | H |
| Bind her flowing tresses up | L |
| Crown her with a fadeless garland | M |
| And with crystal brim the cup | L |
| From her haunts of deep seclusion | B |
| Let intemperance greet her too | N |
| And the heat of his delusion | B |
| Sprinkle with this mountain dew | N |
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| Water leaps as if delighted | O |
| While her conquered foes retire | P |
| Pale Contagion flies affrighted | O |
| With the baffled demon Fire | F |
| Safety dwells in her dominions | Q |
| Health and Beauty with her move | R |
| And entwine their circling pinions | Q |
| In a sisterhood of love | S |
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| Water shouts a glad hosanna | B |
| Bubbles up the earth to bless | Q |
| Cheers it like the precious manna | B |
| In the barren wilderness | Q |
| Here we wondering gaze assembled | O |
| Like the grateful Hebrew band | O |
| When the hidden fountain trembled | O |
| And obeyed the prophet's wand | O |
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| Round the aqueducts of story | T |
| As the mists of Lethe throng | U |
| Croton's waves in all their glory | T |
| Troop in melody along | U |
| Ever sparkling bright and single | V |
| Will this rock ribbed stream appear | W |
| When posterity shall mingle | V |
| Like the gathered waters here | X |
George Pope Morris
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