Pictures Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCCDBEFGGHDHHDII AJKKAALKLMMGNGOKKKOK OKPKPPQQ| I | A |
| Light warmth and sprouting greenness and o'er all | B |
| Blue stainless steel bright ether raining down | C |
| Tranquillity upon the deep hushed town | C |
| The freshening meadows and the hillsides brown | C |
| Voice of the west wind from the hills of pine | D |
| And the brimmed river from its distant fall | B |
| Low hum of bees and joyous interlude | E |
| Of bird songs in the streamlet skirting wood | F |
| Heralds and prophecies of sound and sight | G |
| Blessed forerunners of the warmth and light | G |
| Attendant angels to the house of prayer | H |
| With reverent footsteps keeping pace with mine | D |
| Once more through God's great love with you I share | H |
| A morn of resurrection sweet and fair | H |
| As that which saw of old in Palestine | D |
| Immortal Love uprising in fresh bloom | I |
| From the dark night and winter of the tomb | I |
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| II | A |
| White with its sun bleached dust the pathway winds | J |
| Before me dust is on the shrunken grass | K |
| And on the trees beneath whose boughs I pass | K |
| Frail screen against the Hunter of the sky | A |
| Who glaring on me with his lidless eye | A |
| While mounting with his dog star high and higher | L |
| Ambushed in light intolerable unbinds | K |
| The burnished quiver of his shafts of fire | L |
| Between me and the hot fields of his South | M |
| A tremulous glow as from a furnace mouth | M |
| Glimmers and swims before my dazzled sight | G |
| As if the burning arrows of his ire | N |
| Broke as they fell and shattered into light | G |
| Yet on my cheek I feel the western wind | O |
| And hear it telling to the orchard trees | K |
| And to the faint and flower forsaken bees | K |
| Tales of fair meadows green with constant streams | K |
| And mountains rising blue and cool behind | O |
| Where in moist dells the purple orchis gleams | K |
| And starred with white the virgin's bower is twined | O |
| So the o'erwearied pilgrim as he fares | K |
| Along life's summer waste at times is fanned | P |
| Even at noontide by the cool sweet airs | K |
| Of a serener and a holier land | P |
| Fresh as the morn and as the dewfall bland | P |
| Breath of the blessed Heaven for which we pray | Q |
| Blow from the eternal hills make glad our earthly way | Q |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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