A Mystery Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH EJKL MNKN OEPE QJRJ STUT VKWK XHEH YZA2Z| The river hemmed with leaning trees | A |
| Wound through its meadows green | B |
| A low blue line of mountains showed | C |
| The open pines between | B |
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| One sharp tall peak above them all | D |
| Clear into sunlight sprang | E |
| I saw the river of my dreams | F |
| The mountains that I sang | E |
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| No clue of memory led me on | G |
| But well the ways I knew | H |
| A feeling of familiar things | I |
| With every footstep grew | H |
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| Not otherwise above its crag | E |
| Could lean the blasted pine | J |
| Not otherwise the maple hold | K |
| Aloft its red ensign | L |
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| So up the long and shorn foot hills | M |
| The mountain road should creep | N |
| So green and low the meadow fold | K |
| Its red haired kine asleep | N |
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| The river wound as it should wind | O |
| Their place the mountains took | E |
| The white torn fringes of their clouds | P |
| Wore no unwonted look | E |
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| Yet ne'er before that river's rim | Q |
| Was pressed by feet of mine | J |
| Never before mine eyes had crossed | R |
| That broken mountain line | J |
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| A presence strange at once and known | S |
| Walked with me as my guide | T |
| The skirts of some forgotten life | U |
| Trailed noiseless at my side | T |
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| Was it a dim remembered dream | V |
| Or glimpse through ions old | K |
| The secret which the mountains kept | W |
| The river never told | K |
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| But from the vision ere it passed | X |
| A tender hope I drew | H |
| And pleasant as a dawn of spring | E |
| The thought within me grew | H |
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| That love would temper every change | Y |
| And soften all surprise | Z |
| And misty with the dreams of earth | A2 |
| The hills of Heaven arise | Z |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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