Ah! Little Lake Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDE FGGF HIIH EJJE KLLL MLLM NOPN| Ah little lake though fair thou art | A |
| A sapphire flashing to the sky | B |
| Thy charm is only for the eye | B |
| Thy beauty cannot hold my heart | A |
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| Green hill sides bending to thy shore | C |
| Gleam clear in the autumnal light | D |
| While far above Monadnock's height | D |
| Keeps rugged guard thy waters o'er | E |
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| And yet these very beauties cloy | F |
| As in a prison I am bound | G |
| Though fair the walls that gird me round | G |
| My housemate is no longer joy | F |
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| Thy loveliness breeds discontent | H |
| For far my foolish heart would be | I |
| It longs for the unquiet sea | I |
| And with desire is sorely rent | H |
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| Hateful the walls that me debar | E |
| From happier things that haunt me so | J |
| Even my weary thoughts are slow | J |
| To reach the great great world afar | E |
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| I half believe there is no world | K |
| Those cruel hill tops there beyond | L |
| Oh for the wizard Merlin's wand | L |
| That all these mountain curves uncurled | L |
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| I might behold the shore I love | M |
| Might hear the roaring of the tide | L |
| Might see the ocean reaching wide | L |
| And boundless as the sky above | M |
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| One hour beside that sea kissed beach | N |
| Quick throbbing to its love's caress | O |
| Would yield to me more happiness | P |
| Than a whole life time here could teach | N |
Helen Leah Reed
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