The Lakeside Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGFGCHCH IJIJKLML BFBFNOPQ RARASTST| The shadows round the inland sea | A |
| Are deepening into night | B |
| Slow up the slopes of Ossipee | C |
| They chase the lessening light | B |
| Tired of the long day's blinding heat | D |
| I rest my languid eye | E |
| Lake of the Hills where cool and sweet | D |
| Thy sunset waters lie | E |
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| Along the sky in wavy lines | F |
| O'er isle and reach and bay | G |
| Green belted with eternal pines | F |
| The mountains stretch away | G |
| Below the maple masses sleep | C |
| Where shore with water blends | H |
| While midway on the tranquil deep | C |
| The evening light descends | H |
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| So seemed it when yon hill's red crown | I |
| Of old the Indian trod | J |
| And through the sunset air looked down | I |
| Upon the Smile of God | J |
| To him of light and shade the laws | K |
| No forest skeptic taught | L |
| Their living and eternal Cause | M |
| His truer instinct sought | L |
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| He saw these mountains in the light | B |
| Which now across them shines | F |
| This lake in summer sunset bright | B |
| Walled round with sombering pines | F |
| God near him seemed from earth and skies | N |
| His loving voice he beard | O |
| As face to face in Paradise | P |
| Man stood before the Lord | Q |
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| Thanks O our Father that like him | R |
| Thy tender love I see | A |
| In radiant hill and woodland dim | R |
| And tinted sunset sea | A |
| For not in mockery dost Thou fill | S |
| Our earth with light and grace | T |
| Thou hid'st no dark and cruel will | S |
| Behind Thy smiling face | T |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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