Earlier Poems : Sunrise On The Hills Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHII JJKKLLMMNNOO PPQQRR| I stood upon the hills when heaven's wide arch | A |
| Was glorious with the sun's returning march | A |
| And woods were brightened and soft gales | B |
| Went forth to kiss the sun clad vales | B |
| The clouds were far beneath me bathed in light | C |
| They gathered midway round the wooded height | C |
| And in their fading glory shone | D |
| Like hosts in battle overthrown | D |
| As many a pinnacle with shifting glance | E |
| Through the gray mist thrust up its shattered lance | E |
| And rocking on the cliff was left | F |
| The dark pine blasted bare and cleft | F |
| The veil of cloud was lifted and below | G |
| Glowed the rich valley and the river's flow | G |
| Was darkened by the forest's shade | H |
| Or glistened in the white cascade | H |
| Where upward in the mellow blush of day | I |
| The noisy bittern wheeled his spiral way | I |
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| I heard the distant waters dash | J |
| I saw the current whirl and flash | J |
| And richly by the blue lake's silver beach | K |
| The woods were bending with a silent reach | K |
| Then o'er the vale with gentle swell | L |
| The music of the village bell | L |
| Came sweetly to the echo giving hills | M |
| And the wild horn whose voice the woodland fills | M |
| Was ringing to the merry shout | N |
| That faint and far the glen sent out | N |
| Where answering to the sudden shot thin smoke | O |
| Through thick leaved branches from the dingle broke | O |
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| If thou art worn and hard beset | P |
| With sorrows that thou wouldst forget | P |
| If thou wouldst read a lesson that will keep | Q |
| Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep | Q |
| Go to the woods and hills No tears | R |
| Dim the sweet look that Nature wears | R |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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