Kenoza Lake Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB D DE FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM MNMN MJMJ JNJN MOMO PMPM QRQR MJMJ SFSF| As Adam did in Paradise | A |
| To day the primal right we claim | B |
| Fair mirror of the woods and skies | C |
| We give to thee a name | B |
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| Lake of the pickerel let no more | D |
| The echoes answer back 'Great Pond ' | - |
| But sweet Kenoza from thy shore | D |
| And watching hills beyond | E |
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| Let Indian ghosts if such there be | F |
| Who ply unseen their shadowy lines | G |
| Call back the ancient name to thee | F |
| As with the voice of pines | G |
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| The shores we trod as barefoot boys | H |
| The nutted woods we wandered through | I |
| To friendship love and social joys | H |
| We consecrate anew | I |
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| Here shall the tender song be sung | J |
| And memory's dirges soft and low | K |
| And wit shall sparkle on the tongue | J |
| And mirth shall overflow | K |
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| Harmless as summer lightning plays | L |
| From a low hidden cloud by night | M |
| A light to set the hills ablaze | L |
| But not a bolt to smite | M |
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| In sunny South and prairied West | M |
| Are exiled hearts remembering still | N |
| As bees their hive as birds their nest | M |
| The homes of Haverhill | N |
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| They join us in our rites to day | M |
| And listening we may hear erelong | J |
| From inland lake and ocean bay | M |
| The echoes of our song | J |
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| Kenoza o'er no sweeter lake | J |
| Shall morning break or noon cloud sail | N |
| No fairer face than thine shall take | J |
| The sunset's golden veil | N |
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| Long be it ere the tide of trade | M |
| Shall break with harsh resounding din | O |
| The quiet of thy banks of shade | M |
| And hills that fold thee in | O |
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| Still let thy woodlands hide the hare | P |
| The shy loon sound his trumpet note | M |
| Wing weary from his fields of air | P |
| The wild goose on thee float | M |
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| Thy peace rebuke our feverish stir | Q |
| Thy beauty our deforming strife | R |
| Thy woods and waters minister | Q |
| The healing of their life | R |
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| And sinless Mirth from care released | M |
| Behold unawed thy mirrored sky | J |
| Smiling as smiled on Cana's feast | M |
| The Master's loving eye | J |
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| And when the summer day grows dim | S |
| And light mists walk thy mimic sea | F |
| Revive in us the thought of Him | S |
| Who walked on Galilee | F |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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