The Bridge Of Cloud Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ GKGK GIGI ALAL EIEI GIGIBurn O evening hearth and waken | A |
Pleasant visions as of old | B |
Though the house by winds be shaken | A |
Safe I keep this room of gold | B |
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Ah no longer wizard Fancy | C |
Builds her castles in the air | D |
Luring me by necromancy | C |
Up the never ending stair | D |
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But instead she builds me bridges | E |
Over many a dark ravine | F |
Where beneath the gusty ridges | E |
Cataracts dash and roar unseen | F |
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And I cross them little heeding | G |
Blast of wind or torrent's roar | H |
As I follow the receding | G |
Footsteps that have gone before | H |
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Naught avails the imploring gesture | I |
Naught avails the cry of pain | J |
When I touch the flying vesture | I |
'T is the gray robe of the rain | J |
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Baffled I return and leaning | G |
O'er the parapets of cloud | K |
Watch the mist that intervening | G |
Wraps the valley in its shroud | K |
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And the sounds of life ascending | G |
Faintly vaguely meet the ear | I |
Murmur of bells and voices blending | G |
With the rush of waters near | I |
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Well I know what there lies hidden | A |
Every tower and town and farm | L |
And again the land forbidden | A |
Reassumes its vanished charm | L |
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Well I know the secret places | E |
And the nests in hedge and tree | I |
At what doors are friendly faces | E |
In what hearts are thoughts of me | I |
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Through the mist and darkness sinking | G |
Blown by wind and beaten by shower | I |
Down I fling the thought I'm thinking | G |
Down I toss this Alpine flower | I |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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