The Hermit. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CD EE FF GG HI EE JJ KK LL MM NN EE| By the waters of a river where the rocks like giants stand | A |
| There a stranger young and favored built a home with his own hand | A |
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| Hewed the logs and reared the roof tree where for years alone he dwelt | B |
| Wanderer from the sunny Southland and from pangs his heart had felt | B |
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| Legend says high born and wealthy seeking there in Nature's wilds | C |
| To forget a maiden fickle basking in a rival's smiles | D |
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| Where the music of the wild birds echoed from the cliffs around | E |
| Blended with the voice of waters flowing past with silvery sound | E |
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| Where in Springtime wild flowers blooming shed their incense day and night | F |
| And the rugged cliff sides wearing robes of dogwood snowy white | F |
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| Where in Summer old trees spreading overhead a leafy roof | G |
| Flung their shadows deep and cooling 'gainst the burning sunbeams proof | G |
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| Where in Winter wild winds raving whistled 'round his lonely home | H |
| And the swollen torrent rushing struck the rocks with sullen tone | I |
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| He a sunnier clime forsaking for the dark and bloody ground | E |
| Where the forest stretched unbroken there the wanderer rest had found | E |
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| All of human kind deserting where no din of toil and strife | J |
| Ever came to break the stillness there he spent a hermit's life | J |
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| All his frugal wants supplying from the storehouse Nature gave | K |
| Nevermore his footsteps bending toward where Hope had found its grave | K |
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| Striving to forget the false one dwelling 'neath her sunny skies | L |
| Who had left the arrow rankling in his heart with honied lies | L |
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| Long ago she was forgotten and at last surcease had come | M |
| For his heart was stilled forever and his lips were sealed and dumb | M |
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| Long he lay beside the river flowing sweetly there to day | N |
| Where was found a bleaching skeleton and a rude hut in decay | N |
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| There where briars in tangled network sway above a little mound | E |
| Rest the bones of Southern stranger in the dark and bloody ground | E |
George W. Doneghy
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