Songo River Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ KKLL MMNN OOPP QQPP RRSS PPTT| Nowhere such a devious stream | A |
| Save in fancy or in dream | A |
| Winding slow through bush and brake | B |
| Links together lake and lake | B |
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| Walled with woods or sandy shelf | C |
| Ever doubling on itself | C |
| Flows the stream so still and slow | D |
| That it hardly seems to flow | D |
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| Never errant knight of old | E |
| Lost in woodland or on wold | E |
| Such a winding path pursued | F |
| Through the sylvan solitude | F |
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| Never school boy in his quest | G |
| After hazel nut or nest | G |
| Through the forest in and out | H |
| Wandered loitering thus about | H |
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| In the mirror of its tide | I |
| Tangled thickets on each side | I |
| Hang inverted and between | J |
| Floating cloud or sky serene | J |
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| Swift or swallow on the wing | K |
| Seems the only living thing | K |
| Or the loon that laughs and flies | L |
| Down to those reflected skies | L |
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| Silent stream thy Indian name | M |
| Unfamiliar is to fame | M |
| For thou hidest here alone | N |
| Well content to be unknown | N |
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| But thy tranquil waters teach | O |
| Wisdom deep as human speech | O |
| Moving without haste or noise | P |
| In unbroken equipoise | P |
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| Though thou turnest no busy mill | Q |
| And art ever calm and still | Q |
| Even thy silence seems to say | P |
| To the traveller on his way | P |
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| Traveller hurrying from the heat | R |
| Of the city stay thy feet | R |
| Rest awhile nor longer waste | S |
| Life with inconsiderate haste | S |
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| Be not like a stream that brawls | P |
| Loud with shallow waterfalls | P |
| But in quiet self control | T |
| Link together soul and soul | T |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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