Waterfall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQ| Smooth to the shelving brink a copious flood | A |
| Rolls fair and placid where collected all | B |
| In one impetuous torrent down the steep | C |
| It thundering shoots and shakes the country round | D |
| At first an azure sheet it rushes broad | E |
| Then whitening by degrees as prone it falls | F |
| And from the loud resounding rocks below | G |
| Dash'd in a cloud of foam it sends aloft | H |
| A hoary mist and forms a ceaseless shower | I |
| Nor can the tortured wave here find repose | J |
| But raging still amid the shaggy rocks | K |
| Now flashes o'er the scatter'd fragments now | L |
| Aslant the hollow channel rapid darts | M |
| And falling fast from gradual slope to slope | N |
| With wild infracted course and lessen'd roar | O |
| It gains a safer bed and steals at last | P |
| Along the mazes of a quiet vale | Q |
James Thomson
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Brian: I have just been working on a series of paintings related to waterfalls.. These words capture what I have been attempting to achieve in paint!
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