The Heavenly Hills Of Holland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE FGHGIJKJ LMNMFOPQ RSESTUHU| The heavenly hills of Holland | A |
| How wondrously they rise | B |
| Above the smooth green pastures | C |
| Into the azure skies | B |
| With blue and purple hollows | D |
| With peaks of dazzling snow | E |
| Along the far horizon | F |
| The clouds are marching slow | E |
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| No mortal foot has trodden | F |
| The summits of that range | G |
| Nor walked those mystic valleys | H |
| Whose colors ever change | G |
| Yet we possess their beauty | I |
| And visit them in dreams | J |
| While the ruddy gold of sunset | K |
| From cliff and canyon gleams | J |
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| In days of cloudless weather | L |
| They melt into the light | M |
| When fog and mist surround us | N |
| They're hidden from our sight | M |
| But when returns a season | F |
| Clear shining after rain | O |
| While the northwest wind is blowing | P |
| We see the hills again | Q |
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| The old Dutch painters loved them | R |
| Their pictures show them clear | S |
| Old Hobbema and Ruysdael | E |
| Van Goyen and Vermeer | S |
| Above the level landscape | T |
| Rich polders long armed mills | U |
| Canals and ancient cities | H |
| Float Holland's heavenly hills | U |
Henry Van Dyke
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