The Waterfall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEAE FGHG AIJI AKJL MNAN OPQP RDSD JTUT UVRV TNMN AWXY QZA2Z B2WAW SIC2I PEDE

THE SONG of the waterA
Doomed ever to roamB
A beautiful exileC
Afar from its homeB
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The cliffs on the mountainD
The grand and the grayE
They took the bright creatureA
And hurled it awayE
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I heard the wild downfallF
And knew it must spillG
A passionate heart outH
All over the hillG
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Oh was it a daughterA
Of sorrow and sinI
That they threw it so madlyJ
Down into the lynnI
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And listen my SisterA
For this is the songK
The Waterfall taught meJ
The ridges amongL
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Oh where are the shadowsM
So cool and so sweetN
And the rocks saith the waterA
With the moss on their feetN
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Oh where are my playmatesO
The wind and the flowersP
The golden and purpleQ
Of honey sweet bowersP
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Mine eyes have been blindedR
Because of the sunD
And moaning and moaningS
I listlessly runD
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These hills are so flintyJ
Ah tell me dark EarthT
What valley leads back toU
The place of my birthT
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What valley leads up toU
The haunts where a childV
Of the caverns I sportedR
The free and the wildV
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There lift me it criethT
I faint from the heatN
With a sob for the shadowsM
So cool and so sweetN
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Ye rocks that look overA
With never a tearW
I yearn for one half ofX
The wasted love hereY
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My sister so wistfulQ
You know I believeZ
Like a child for the mountainsA2
This water doth grieveZ
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Ah you with the blue eyesB2
And golden brown hairW
Come closer and closerA
And truly declareW
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Supposing a darlingS
Once happened to sinI
In a passionate spaceC2
Would you carry her inI
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If your fathers and mothersP
The grand and the grayE
Had taken the weak oneD
And hurled her awayE

Henry Kendall



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