River Rhymes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBB CDDDD EEEE FFFF GGGG HHHH IIII JJJK LLLL| A | |
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| We have poled our staunch canoe | B |
| Many a boiling torrent through | B |
| Paddling where the eddies drew | B |
| Athwart the roaring flood we flew | B |
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| Chorus | C |
| Dip your paddles make them leap | D |
| Where the clear cold waters sweep | D |
| Dip your paddles steady keep | D |
| Where breaks the rapid down the steep | D |
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| Where the wind like censer flings | E |
| Smoke spray wider as it swings | E |
| Hark the aisle of rainbow rings | E |
| To falls that hymn the King of kings | E |
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| Lifting there our vessel tight | F |
| Climbed we bank and rocky height | F |
| Bore her through thick woods where light | F |
| Fell dappling those green haunts of Night | F |
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| O'er the rush of billows hurled | G |
| Where they tossed and leaped and curled | G |
| Past each wave worn boulder whirled | G |
| How fast we sailed no sail unfurled | G |
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| Laughs from parted lips and teeth | H |
| Hailed the quiet reach beneath | H |
| Damascened in ferny sheath | H |
| And girt with pine and maple wreath | H |
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| Oh the lovely river there | I |
| Made all Nature yet more fair | I |
| Wooded hills and azure air | I |
| Kissed quivering in the stream they share | I |
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| Plunged the salmon waging feud | J |
| 'Gainst the jewelled insect brood | J |
| From aerial solitude | J |
| An eagle's shadow crossed the wood | K |
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| Flapped the heron and the grey | L |
| Halcyon talked from cedar's spray | L |
| Drummed the partridge far away | L |
| Ah could we choose to live as they | L |
John Campbell
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