Bushnell Park Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABAABCABCCB DDEDDEDDEDDE FFDGFDFFDFFD FFHFFHFFHFFH DDDDDDDDDDDD| Sweet resting place that long hath been | A |
| A boon Elysian 'mid the din | A |
| Of city life 'mid city smoke | B |
| Where weary ones who toil and spin | A |
| Have turned aside as to an inn | A |
| Whose swinging sign a welcome spoke | B |
| Where misanthropes find medicine | C |
| In peals of laughter that begin | A |
| With ancient resurrected joke | B |
| Or ready wit of harlequin | C |
| Where children free from discipline | C |
| Take on Diversion's easy yoke | B |
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| Fair oasis to view aright | D |
| Its charming paths its sloping height | D |
| Its beautiful and broad expanse | E |
| Must one approach in witching night | D |
| When like abodes of airy sprite | D |
| Revealed unto the wondering glance | E |
| O'erflooded with electric light | D |
| Than Luna's beams more dazzling bright | D |
| Illumined nooks the scene enhance | E |
| While zephyrs mischievous unite | D |
| The timid stroller to affright | D |
| By swaying boughs in shadow dance | E |
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| The Capitol that crowns the hill | F |
| Where Boreas sweeps with icy chill | F |
| A masterpiece of studied art | D |
| Conceived by genius versatile | G |
| And fashioned with unerring skill | F |
| O'erlooks the busy crowded mart | D |
| And like a kingly domicile | F |
| Its burnished dome and sculpture thrill | F |
| With admiration every heart | D |
| And strangers pause beyond the rill | F |
| To view its grandeur lingering still | F |
| And with reluctant steps depart | D |
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| O Bushnell Park memorial soil | F |
| That marks success though near to foil | F |
| Of one who with prophetic ken | H |
| With honest zeal and ceaseless toil | F |
| Opposed the vandal wish to spoil | F |
| This lovely bit of vale and glen | H |
| Who 'mid discussion and turmoil | F |
| Of adverse minds did not recoil | F |
| From vigorous stroke of tongue and pen | H |
| And then till passion ceased to boil | F |
| On troubled waters poured out oil | F |
| And to his plans won other men | H |
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| So when fatigued and overwrought | D |
| In summer time when skies are hot | D |
| We seek its verdant velvet sward | D |
| Oh may we hold in reverent thought | D |
| The debt we owe forgetting not | D |
| The spirit passed to its reward | D |
| Of one whose giant soul was fraught | D |
| With true benignity who sought | D |
| To touch humanity's quick chord | D |
| With fire from Heaven's altar brought | D |
| That love and zeal and being caught | D |
| As inspiration from the Lord | D |
Hattie Howard
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