Mountain Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDDE FGFHBIBBJ KLMLNODDO PQPQMRMMR MSMSMMMMM| IN summer dusk the valley lies | A |
| With far flung shadow veil | B |
| A cloud sea laps the precipice | C |
| Before the evening gale | B |
| The welter of the cloud waves grey | D |
| Cuts off from keenest sight | E |
| The glacier looking out by day | D |
| O'er all the district far away | D |
| And crowned with golden light | E |
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| But o'er the smouldering cloud wrack's flow | F |
| Where gold and amber kiss | G |
| Stands up the archipelago | F |
| A home of shining peace | H |
| The mountain eagle seems to sail | B |
| A ship far seen at even | I |
| And over all a serried pale | B |
| Of peaks like giants ranked in mail | B |
| Fronts westward threatening heaven | J |
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| But look a steading nestles close | K |
| Beneath the ice fields bound | L |
| Where purple cliffs and glittering snows | M |
| The quiet home surround | L |
| Here place and people seem to be | N |
| A world apart alone | O |
| Cut off from men by spate and scree | D |
| It has a heaven more broad more free | D |
| A sunshine all its own | O |
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| Look mute the saeter maiden stays | P |
| Half shadow half aflame | Q |
| The deep still vision of her gaze | P |
| Was never word to name | Q |
| She names it not herself nor knows | M |
| What goal my be its will | R |
| While cow bells chime and alp horn blows | M |
| It bears her where the sunset glows | M |
| Or maybe further still | R |
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| Too brief thy life on highland wolds | M |
| Where close the glaciers jut | S |
| Too soon the snowstorm's cloak enfolds | M |
| Stone byre and pine log hut | S |
| Then wilt thou ply with hearth ablaze | M |
| The winter's well worn tasks | M |
| But spin thy wool with cheerful face | M |
| One sunset in the mountain pays | M |
| For all their winter asks | M |
Henrik Johan Ibsen
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