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The River And The Hill Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDEFFEE GHIHJJEFFEE KLMLNNEFFEE

And they shook their sweetness out in their sleepA
On the brink of that beautiful streamB
But it wandered along with a wearisome songC
Like a lover that walks in a dreamB
So the roses blewD
When the winds went throughD
In the moonlight so white and stillE
But the river it beatF
All night at the feetF
Of a cold and flinty hillE
Of a hard and senseless hillE
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I said We have often showered our lovesG
Upon something as dry as the dustH
And the faith that is crost and the hearts that are lostI
Oh how can we wittingly trustH
Like the stream which flowsJ
And wails as it goesJ
Through the moonlight so white and stillE
To beat and to beatF
All night at the feetF
Of a cold and flinty hillE
Of a hard and senseless hillE
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River I stay where the sweet roses blowK
And drink of their pleasant perfumesL
Oh why do you moan in this wide world aloneM
When so much affection here bloomsL
The winds wax faintN
And the moon like a saintN
Glides over the woodlands so white and stillE
But you beat and you beatF
All night at the feetF
Of that cold and flinty hillE
Of that hard and senseless hillE

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