A Summer Sunrise Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBBC DEDDE FGFFG HIHHI JKJJK LMLLM NONNO PQPPQAFTER LEE O HARRIS | A |
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The master hand whose pencils trace | B |
This wondrous landscape of the morn | C |
Is but the sun whose glowing face | B |
Reflects the rapture and the grace | B |
Of inspiration Heaven born | C |
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And yet with vision dazzled eyes | D |
I see the lotus lands of old | E |
Where odorous breezes fall and rise | D |
And mountains peering in the skies | D |
Stand ankle deep in lakes of gold | E |
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And spangled with the shine and shade | F |
I see the rivers raveled out | G |
In strands of silver slowly fade | F |
In threads of light along the glade | F |
Where truant roses hide and pout | G |
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The tamarind on gleaming sands | H |
Droops drowsily beneath the heat | I |
And bowed as though aweary stands | H |
The stately palm with lazy hands | H |
That fold their shadows round his feet | I |
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And mistily as through a veil | J |
I catch the glances of a sea | K |
Of sapphire dimpled with a gale | J |
Toward Colch's blowing where the sail | J |
Of Jason's Argo beckons me | K |
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And gazing on and farther yet | L |
I see the isles enchanted bright | M |
With fretted spire and parapet | L |
And gilded mosque and minaret | L |
That glitter in the crimson light | M |
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But as I gaze the city's walls | N |
Are keenly smitten with a gleam | O |
Of pallid splendor that appalls | N |
The fancy as the ruin falls | N |
In ashen embers of a dream | O |
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Yet over all the waking earth | P |
The tears of night are brushed away | Q |
And eyes are lit with love and mirth | P |
And benisons of richest worth | P |
Go up to bless the new born day | Q |
James Whitcomb Riley
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