The River And The Hill Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDEFFEE GHIHJJEFFEE KLMLNNEFFEE| And they shook their sweetness out in their sleep | A |
| On the brink of that beautiful stream | B |
| But it wandered along with a wearisome song | C |
| Like a lover that walks in a dream | B |
| So the roses blew | D |
| When the winds went through | D |
| In the moonlight so white and still | E |
| But the river it beat | F |
| All night at the feet | F |
| Of a cold and flinty hill | E |
| Of a hard and senseless hill | E |
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| I said We have often showered our loves | G |
| Upon something as dry as the dust | H |
| And the faith that is crost and the hearts that are lost | I |
| Oh how can we wittingly trust | H |
| Like the stream which flows | J |
| And wails as it goes | J |
| Through the moonlight so white and still | E |
| To beat and to beat | F |
| All night at the feet | F |
| Of a cold and flinty hill | E |
| Of a hard and senseless hill | E |
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| River I stay where the sweet roses blow | K |
| And drink of their pleasant perfumes | L |
| Oh why do you moan in this wide world alone | M |
| When so much affection here blooms | L |
| The winds wax faint | N |
| And the moon like a saint | N |
| Glides over the woodlands so white and still | E |
| But you beat and you beat | F |
| All night at the feet | F |
| Of that cold and flinty hill | E |
| Of that hard and senseless hill | E |
Henry Kendall
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