Birchbrook Mill Poem Rhyme Scheme

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A NOTELESS stream the Birchbrook runs	A
Beneath its leaning trees	B
That low soft ripple is its own	C
That dull roar is the sea's	B
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Of human signs it sees alone	C
The distant church spire's tip	D
And ghost like on a blank of gray	E
The white sail of a ship	D
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No more a toiler at the wheel	F
It wanders at its will	G
Nor dam nor pond is left to tell	H
Where once was Birchbrook mill	G
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The timbers of that mill have fed	I
Long since a farmer's fires	J
His doorsteps are the stones that ground	K
The harvest of his sires	L
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Man trespassed here but Nature lost	M
No right of her domain	N
She waited and she brought the old	O
Wild beauty back again	P
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By day the sunlight through the leaves	Q
Falls on its moist green sod	R
And wakes the violet bloom of spring	S
And autumn's golden rod	R
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Its birches whisper to the wind	T
The swallow dips her wings	U
In the cool spray and on its banks	V
The gray song sparrow sings	U
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But from it when the dark night falls	W
The school girl shrinks with dread	I
The farmer home bound from his fields	X
Goes by with quickened tread	I
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They dare not pause to hear the grind	T
Of shadowy stone on stone	C
The plashing of a water wheel	F
Where wheel there now is none	Y
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Has not a cry of pain been heard	Z
Above the clattering mill	G
The pawing of an unseen horse	A2
Who waits his mistress still	G
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Yet never to the listener's eye	B2
Has sight confirmed the sound	K
A wavering birch line marks alone	C
The vacant pasture ground	K
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No ghostly arms fling up to heaven	Y
The agony of prayer	C2
No spectral steed impatient shakes	D2
His white mane on the air	C2
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The meaning of that common dread	I
No tongue has fitly told	O
The secret of the dark surmise	E2
The brook and birches hold	O
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What nameless horror of the past	F2
Broods here forevermore	C2
What ghost his unforgiven sin	G2
Is grinding o'er and o'er	C2
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Does then immortal memory play	E
The actor's tragic part	H2
Rehearsals of a mortal life	I2
And unveiled human heart	H2
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God's pity spare a guilty soul	J2
That drama of its ill	G
And let the scenic curtain fall	K2
On Birchbrook's haunted mill	G

John Greenleaf Whittier

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