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 E2F2G2F2Lake Winnipesaukee | A |
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I NOON | B |
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White clouds whose shadows haunt the deep | C |
Light mists whose soft embraces keep | C |
The sunshine on the hills asleep | C |
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O isles of calm O dark still wood | D |
And stiller skies that overbrood | D |
Your rest with deeper quietude | D |
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O shapes and hues dim beckoning through | E |
Yon mountain gaps my longing view | E |
Beyond the purple and the blue | E |
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To stiller sea and greener land | D |
And softer lights and airs more bland | D |
And skies the hollow of God's hand | D |
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Transfused through you O mountain friends | F |
With mine your solemn spirit blends | F |
And life no more hath separate ends | F |
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I read each misty mountain sign | G |
I know the voice of wave and pine | G |
And I am yours and ye are mine | G |
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Life's burdens fall its discords cease | H |
I lapse into the glad release | H |
Of Nature's own exceeding peace | H |
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O welcome calm of heart and mind | D |
As falls yon fir tree's loosened rind | D |
To leave a tenderer growth behind | D |
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So fall the weary years away | I |
A child again my head I lay | I |
Upon the lap of this sweet day | I |
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This western wind hath Lethean powers | J |
Yon noonday cloud nepenthe showers | J |
The lake is white with lotus flowers | J |
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Even Duty's voice is faint and low | K |
And slumberous Conscience waking slow | K |
Forgets her blotted scroll to show | K |
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The Shadow which pursues us all | L |
Whose ever nearing steps appall | L |
Whose voice we hear behind us call | L |
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That Shadow blends with mountain gray | I |
It speaks but what the light waves say | I |
Death walks apart from Fear to day | I |
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Rocked on her breast these pines and I | M |
Alike on Nature's love rely | M |
And equal seems to live or die | M |
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Assured that He whose presence fills | N |
With light the spaces of these hills | N |
No evil to His creatures wills | N |
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The simple faith remains that He | O |
Will do whatever that may be | O |
The best alike for man and tree | O |
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What mosses over one shall grow | K |
What light and life the other know | K |
Unanxious leaving Him to show | K |
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II EVENING | A |
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Yon mountain's side is black with night | D |
While broad orhed o'er its gleaming crown | P |
The moon slow rounding into sight | D |
On the hushed inland sea looks down | P |
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How start to light the clustering isles | Q |
Each silver hemmed How sharply show | K |
The shadows of their rocky piles | Q |
And tree tops in the wave below | K |
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How far and strange the mountains seem | R |
Dim looming through the pale still light | D |
The vague vast grouping of a dream | R |
They stretch into the solemn night | D |
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Beneath lake wood and peopled vale | S |
Hushed by that presence grand and grave | T |
Are silent save the cricket's wail | S |
And low response of leaf and wave | T |
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Fair scenes whereto the Day and Night | D |
Make rival love I leave ye soon | B |
What time before the eastern light | D |
The pale ghost of the setting moon | B |
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Shall hide behind yon rocky spines | U |
And the young archer Morn shall break | A |
His arrows on the mountain pines | U |
And golden sandalled walk the lake | A |
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Farewell around this smiling bay | I |
Gay hearted Health and Life in bloom | V |
With lighter steps than mine may stray | I |
In radiant summers yet to come | W |
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But none shall more regretful leave | X |
These waters and these hills than I | M |
Or distant fonder dream how eve | X |
Or dawn is painting wave and sky | M |
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How rising moons shine sad and mild | D |
On wooded isle and silvering bay | I |
Or setting suns beyond the piled | D |
And purple mountains lead the day | I |
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Nor laughing girl nor bearding boy | Y |
Nor full pulsed manhood lingering here | Z |
Shall add to life's abounding joy | Y |
The charmed repose to suffering dear | A2 |
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Still waits kind Nature to impart | D |
Her choicest gifts to such as gain | B2 |
An entrance to her loving heart | D |
Through the sharp discipline of pain | B2 |
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Forever from the Hand that takes | C2 |
One blessing from us others fall | L |
And soon or late our Father makes | C2 |
His perfect recompense to all | L |
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Oh watched by Silence and the Night | D |
And folded in the strong embrace | D2 |
Of the great mountains with the light | D |
Of the sweet heavens upon thy face | D2 |
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Lake of the Northland keep thy dower | E2 |
Of beauty still and while above | F2 |
Thy solemn mountains speak of power | G2 |
Be thou the mirror of God's love | F2 |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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