A Summer Sunrise Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBBC DEDDE FGFFG HIHHI JKJJK LMLLM NONNO PQPPQ| AFTER 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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