The Bridge Of Cloud Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ GKGK GIGI ALAL EIEI GIGI| Burn 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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