Summer By The Lakeside Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A B CCC DDD EEE DDD FFF GGG HHH DDD III JJJ KKK LLL III MMM NNN OOO KKK A DPDP QKQK RDRD STST DBDB UAUA IVIW XMXM DIDI YZYA2 DB2DB2 C2LC2L DD2DD2 E2F2G2F2

Lake WinnipesaukeeA
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I NOONB
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White clouds whose shadows haunt the deepC
Light mists whose soft embraces keepC
The sunshine on the hills asleepC
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O isles of calm O dark still woodD
And stiller skies that overbroodD
Your rest with deeper quietudeD
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O shapes and hues dim beckoning throughE
Yon mountain gaps my longing viewE
Beyond the purple and the blueE
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To stiller sea and greener landD
And softer lights and airs more blandD
And skies the hollow of God's handD
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Transfused through you O mountain friendsF
With mine your solemn spirit blendsF
And life no more hath separate endsF
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I read each misty mountain signG
I know the voice of wave and pineG
And I am yours and ye are mineG
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Life's burdens fall its discords ceaseH
I lapse into the glad releaseH
Of Nature's own exceeding peaceH
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O welcome calm of heart and mindD
As falls yon fir tree's loosened rindD
To leave a tenderer growth behindD
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So fall the weary years awayI
A child again my head I layI
Upon the lap of this sweet dayI
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This western wind hath Lethean powersJ
Yon noonday cloud nepenthe showersJ
The lake is white with lotus flowersJ
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Even Duty's voice is faint and lowK
And slumberous Conscience waking slowK
Forgets her blotted scroll to showK
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The Shadow which pursues us allL
Whose ever nearing steps appallL
Whose voice we hear behind us callL
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That Shadow blends with mountain grayI
It speaks but what the light waves sayI
Death walks apart from Fear to dayI
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Rocked on her breast these pines and IM
Alike on Nature's love relyM
And equal seems to live or dieM
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Assured that He whose presence fillsN
With light the spaces of these hillsN
No evil to His creatures willsN
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The simple faith remains that HeO
Will do whatever that may beO
The best alike for man and treeO
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What mosses over one shall growK
What light and life the other knowK
Unanxious leaving Him to showK
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II EVENINGA
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Yon mountain's side is black with nightD
While broad orhed o'er its gleaming crownP
The moon slow rounding into sightD
On the hushed inland sea looks downP
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How start to light the clustering islesQ
Each silver hemmed How sharply showK
The shadows of their rocky pilesQ
And tree tops in the wave belowK
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How far and strange the mountains seemR
Dim looming through the pale still lightD
The vague vast grouping of a dreamR
They stretch into the solemn nightD
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Beneath lake wood and peopled valeS
Hushed by that presence grand and graveT
Are silent save the cricket's wailS
And low response of leaf and waveT
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Fair scenes whereto the Day and NightD
Make rival love I leave ye soonB
What time before the eastern lightD
The pale ghost of the setting moonB
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Shall hide behind yon rocky spinesU
And the young archer Morn shall breakA
His arrows on the mountain pinesU
And golden sandalled walk the lakeA
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Farewell around this smiling bayI
Gay hearted Health and Life in bloomV
With lighter steps than mine may strayI
In radiant summers yet to comeW
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But none shall more regretful leaveX
These waters and these hills than IM
Or distant fonder dream how eveX
Or dawn is painting wave and skyM
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How rising moons shine sad and mildD
On wooded isle and silvering bayI
Or setting suns beyond the piledD
And purple mountains lead the dayI
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Nor laughing girl nor bearding boyY
Nor full pulsed manhood lingering hereZ
Shall add to life's abounding joyY
The charmed repose to suffering dearA2
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Still waits kind Nature to impartD
Her choicest gifts to such as gainB2
An entrance to her loving heartD
Through the sharp discipline of painB2
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Forever from the Hand that takesC2
One blessing from us others fallL
And soon or late our Father makesC2
His perfect recompense to allL
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Oh watched by Silence and the NightD
And folded in the strong embraceD2
Of the great mountains with the lightD
Of the sweet heavens upon thy faceD2
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Lake of the Northland keep thy dowerE2
Of beauty still and while aboveF2
Thy solemn mountains speak of powerG2
Be thou the mirror of God's loveF2

John Greenleaf Whittier



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