Mountains Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGHH IJKKLLMM NNOOPPQQ RRSSTTUU VWAAXXNN YYZZA2A2H B2B2C2 GGD2D2| Rifted mountains clad with forests girded round by gleaming pines | A |
| Where the morning like an angel robed in golden splendour shines | A |
| Shimmering mountains throwing downward on the slopes a mazy glare | B |
| Where the noonday glory sails through gulfs of calm and glittering air | B |
| Stately mountains high and hoary piled with blocks of amber cloud | C |
| Where the fading twilight lingers when the winds are wailing loud | C |
| Grand old mountains overbeetling brawling brooks and deep ravines | D |
| Where the moonshine pale and mournful flows on rocks and evergreens | D |
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| Underneath these regal ridges underneath the gnarly trees | E |
| I am sitting lonely hearted listening to a lonely breeze | E |
| Sitting by an ancient casement casting many a longing look | F |
| Out across the hazy gloaming out beyond the brawling brook | F |
| Over pathways leading skyward over crag and swelling cone | G |
| Past long hillocks looking like to waves of ocean turned to stone | G |
| Yearning for a bliss unworldly yearning for a brighter change | H |
| Yearning for the mystic Aidenn built beyond this mountain range | H |
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| Happy years amongst these valleys happy years have come and gone | I |
| And my youthful hopes and friendships withered with them one by one | J |
| Days and moments bearing onward many a bright and beauteous dream | K |
| All have passed me like to sunstreaks flying down a distant stream | K |
| Oh the love returned by loved ones Oh the faces that I knew | L |
| Oh the wrecks of fond affection Oh the hearts so warm and true | L |
| But their voices I remember and a something lingers still | M |
| Like a dying echo roaming sadly round a far off hill | M |
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| I would sojourn here contented tranquil as I was of yore | N |
| And would never wish to clamber seeking for an unknown shore | N |
| I have dwelt within this cottage twenty summers and mine eyes | O |
| Never wandered erewhile round in search of undiscovered skies | O |
| But a spirit sits beside me veiled in robes of dazzling white | P |
| And a dear one's whisper wakens with the symphonies of night | P |
| And a low sad music cometh borne along on windy wings | Q |
| Like a strain familiar rising from a maze of slumbering springs | Q |
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| And the Spirit by my window speaketh to my restless soul | R |
| Telling of the clime she came from where the silent moments roll | R |
| Telling of the bourne mysterious where the sunny summers flee | S |
| Cliffs and coasts by man untrodden ridging round a shipless sea | S |
| There the years of yore are blooming there departed life dreams dwell | T |
| There the faces beam with gladness that I loved in youth so well | T |
| There the songs of childhood travel over wave worn steep and strand | U |
| Over dale and upland stretching out behind this mountain land | U |
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| 'Lovely Being can a mortal weary of this changeless scene | V |
| Cross these cloudy summits to the land where man hath never been | W |
| Can he find a pathway leading through that wildering mass of pines | A |
| So that he shall reach the country where ethereal glory shines | A |
| So that he may glance at waters never dark with coming ships | X |
| Hearing round him gentle language floating from angelic lips | X |
| Casting off his earthly fetters living there for evermore | N |
| All the blooms of Beauty near him gleaming on that quiet shore | N |
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| 'Ere you quit this ancient casement tell me is it well to yearn | Y |
| For the evanescent visions vanished never to return | Y |
| Is it well that I should with to leave this dreary world behind | Z |
| Seeking for your fair Utopia which perchance I may not find | Z |
| Passing through a gloomy forest scaling steeps like prison walls | A2 |
| Where the scanty sunshine wavers and the moonlight seldom falls | A2 |
| Oh the feelings re awakened Oh the hopes of loftier range | H |
| Is it well thou friendly Being well to wish for such a change ' | - |
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| But the Spirit answers nothing and the dazzling mantle fades | B2 |
| And a wailing whisper wanders out from dismal seaside shades | B2 |
| 'Lo the trees are moaning loudly underneath their hood like shrouds | C2 |
| And the arch above us darkens scarred with ragged thunder clouds ' | - |
| But the spirit answers nothing and I linger all alone | G |
| Gazing through the moony vapours where the lovely Dream has flown | G |
| And my heart is beating sadly and the music waxeth faint | D2 |
| Sailing up to holy Heaven like the anthems of a Saint | D2 |
Henry Kendall
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