Sunset On The Bearcamp Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFEGHIH JKLKMNONPQRQ LSTSUVWVXYZY A2B2C2D2JE2F2E2G2H2I 2H2 J2K2L2K2TM2N2M2O2P2D P2 Q2R2S2R2T2LU2LK2K2N2 K2 E2H2V2H2S2N2LN2TUK2UA gold fringe on the purpling hem | A |
Of hills the river runs | B |
As down its long green valley falls | C |
The last of summer's suns | B |
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Along its tawny gravel bed | D |
Broad flowing swift and still | E |
As if its meadow levels felt | F |
The hurry of the hill | E |
Noiseless between its banks of green | G |
From curve to curve it slips | H |
The drowsy maple shadows rest | I |
Like fingers on its lips | H |
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A waif from Carroll's wildest hills | J |
Unstoried and unknown | K |
The ursine legend of its name | L |
Prowls on its banks alone | K |
Yet flowers as fair its slopes adorn | M |
As ever Yarrow knew | N |
Or under rainy Irish skies | O |
By Spenser's Mulla grew | N |
And through the gaps of leaning trees | P |
Its mountain cradle shows | Q |
The gold against the amethyst | R |
The green against the rose | Q |
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Touched by a light that hath no name | L |
A glory never sung | S |
Aloft on sky and mountain wall | T |
Are God's great pictures hung | S |
How changed the summits vast and old | U |
No longer granite browed | V |
They melt in rosy mist the rock | W |
Is softer than the cloud | V |
The valley holds its breath no leaf | X |
Of all its elms is twirled | Y |
The silence of eternity | Z |
Seems falling on the world | Y |
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The pause before the breaking seals | A2 |
Of mystery is this | B2 |
Yon miracle play of night and day | C2 |
Makes dumb its witnesses | D2 |
What unseen altar crowns the hills | J |
That reach up stair on stair | E2 |
What eyes look through what white wings fan | F2 |
These purple veils of air | E2 |
What Presence from the heavenly heights | G2 |
To those of earth stoops down | H2 |
Not vainly Hellas dreamed of gods | I2 |
On Ida's snowy crown | H2 |
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Slow fades the vision of the sky | J2 |
The golden water pales | K2 |
And over all the valley land | L2 |
A gray winged vapor sails | K2 |
I go the common way of all | T |
The sunset fires will burn | M2 |
The flowers will blow the river flow | N2 |
When I no more return | M2 |
No whisper from the mountain pine | O2 |
Nor lapsing stream shall tell | P2 |
The stranger treading where I tread | D |
Of him who loved them well | P2 |
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But beauty seen is never lost | Q2 |
God's colors all are fast | R2 |
The glory of this sunset heaven | S2 |
Into my soul has passed | R2 |
A sense of gladness unconfined | T2 |
To mortal date or clime | L |
As the soul liveth it shall live | U2 |
Beyond the years of time | L |
Beside the mystic asphodels | K2 |
Shall bloom the home born flowers | K2 |
And new horizons flush and glow | N2 |
With sunset hues of ours | K2 |
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Farewell these smiling hills must wear | E2 |
Too soon their wintry frown | H2 |
And snow cold winds from off them shake | V2 |
The maple's red leaves down | H2 |
But I shall see a summer sun | S2 |
Still setting broad and low | N2 |
The mountain slopes shall blush and bloom | L |
The golden water flow | N2 |
A lover's claim is mine on all | T |
I see to have and hold | U |
The rose light of perpetual hills | K2 |
And sunsets never cold | U |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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