The Ranger Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAB AAACCAC DECAAACCAC FFCAAAC A GGCFFFCCF FFCHHHCCHC AACIIICCIC JJCAAJCCA AACIIICCI KKCAAACCAC FFCAAL CL LACAAA A L CAAACCAC FFCAAACCAC AACAAAC A KKCGGGCCGC FFC GGGCCGROBERT RAWLIN Frosts were falling | A |
When the ranger's horn was calling | A |
Through the woods to Canada | B |
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Gone the winter's sleet and snowing | A |
Gone the spring time's bud and blowing | A |
Gone the summer's harvest mowing | A |
And again the fields are gray | C |
Yet away he's away | C |
Faint and fainter hope is growing | A |
In the hearts that mourn his stay | C |
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Where the lion crouching high on | D |
Abraham's rock with teeth of iron | E |
Glares o'er wood and wave away | C |
Faintly thence as pines far sighing | A |
Or as thunder spent and dying | A |
Come the challenge and replying | A |
Come the sounds of flight and fray | C |
Well a day Hope and pray | C |
Some are living some are lying | A |
In their red graves far away | C |
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Straggling rangers worn with dangers | F |
Homeward faring weary strangers | F |
Pass the farm gate on their way | C |
Tidings of the dead and living | A |
Forest march and ambush giving | A |
Till the maidens leave their weaving | A |
And the lads forget their play | C |
'Still away still away ' | - |
Sighs a sad one sick with grieving | A |
'Why does Robert still delay ' | - |
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Nowhere fairer sweeter rarer | G |
Does the golden locked fruit bearer | G |
Through his painted woodlands stray | C |
Than where hillside oaks and beeches | F |
Overlook the long blue reaches | F |
Silver coves and pebbled beaches | F |
And green isles of Casco Bay | C |
Nowhere day for delay | C |
With a tenderer look beseeches | F |
'Let me with my charmed earth stay ' | - |
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On the grain lands of the mainlands | F |
Stands the serried corn like train bands | F |
Plume and pennon rustling gay | C |
Out at sea the islands wooded | H |
Silver birches golden hooded | H |
Set with maples crimson blooded | H |
White sea foam and sand hills gray | C |
Stretch away far away | C |
Dim and dreamy over brooded | H |
By the hazy autumn day | C |
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Gayly chattering to the clattering | A |
Of the brown nuts downward pattering | A |
Leap the squirrels red and gray | C |
On the grass land on the fallow | I |
Drop the apples red and yellow | I |
Drop the russet pears and mellow | I |
Drop the red leaves all the day | C |
And away swift away | C |
Sun and cloud o'er hill and hollow | I |
Chasing weave their web of play | C |
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'Martha Mason Martha Mason | J |
Prithee tell us of the reason | J |
Why you mope at home to day | C |
Surely smiling is not sinning | A |
Leave your quilling leave your spinning | A |
What is all your store of linen | J |
If your heart is never gay | C |
Come away come away | C |
Never yet did sad beginning | A |
Make the task of life a play ' | - |
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Overbending till she's blending | A |
With the flaxen skein she's tending | A |
Pale brown tresses smoothed away | C |
From her face of patient sorrow | I |
Sits she seeking but to borrow | I |
From the trembling hope of morrow | I |
Solace for the weary day | C |
'Go your way laugh and play | C |
Unto Him who heeds the sparrow | I |
And the lily let me pray ' | - |
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'With our rally rings the valley | K |
Join us ' cried the blue eyed Nelly | K |
'Join us ' cried the laughing May | C |
'To the beach we all are going | A |
And to save the task of rowing | A |
West by north the wind is blowing | A |
Blowing briskly down the bay | C |
Come away come away | C |
Time and tide are swiftly flowing | A |
Let us take them while we may | C |
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'Never tell us that you'll fail us | F |
Where the purple beach plum mellows | F |
On the bluffs so wild and gray | C |
Hasten for the oars are falling | A |
Hark our merry mates are calling | A |
Time it is that we were all in | L |
Singing tideward down the bay ' | - |
'Nay nay let me stay | C |
Sore and sad for Robert Rawlin | L |
Is my heart ' she said 'to day ' | - |
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'Vain your calling for Rob Rawlin | L |
Some red squaw his moose meat's broiling | A |
Or some French lass singing gay | C |
Just forget as he's forgetting | A |
What avails a life of fretting | A |
If some stars must needs be setting | A |
Others rise as good as they ' | - |
'Cease I pray go your way ' | - |
Martha cries her eyelids wetting | A |
'Foul and false the words you say ' | - |
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'Martha Mason hear to reason | L |
Prithee put a kinder face on ' | - |
'Cease to vex me ' did she say | C |
'Better at his side be lying | A |
With the mournful pine trees sighing | A |
And the wild birds o'er us crying | A |
Than to doubt like mine a prey | C |
While away far away | C |
Turns my heart forever trying | A |
Some new hope for each new day | C |
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'When the shadows veil the meadows | F |
And the sunset's golden ladders | F |
Sink from twilight's walls of gray | C |
From the window of my dreaming | A |
I can see his sickle gleaming | A |
Cheery voiced can hear him teaming | A |
Down the locust shaded way | C |
But away swift away | C |
Fades the fond delusive seeming | A |
And I kneel again to pray | C |
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'When the growing dawn is showing | A |
And the barn yard cock is crowing | A |
And the horned moon pales away | C |
From a dream of him awaking | A |
Every sound my heart is making | A |
Seems a footstep of his taking | A |
Then I hush the thought and say | C |
'Nay nay he's away ' | - |
Ah my heart my heart is breaking | A |
For the dear one far away ' | - |
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Look up Martha worn and swarthy | K |
Glows a face of manhood worthy | K |
'Robert ' 'Martha ' all they say | C |
O'er went wheel and reel together | G |
Little cared the owner whither | G |
Heart of lead is heart of feather | G |
Noon of night is noon of day | C |
Come away come away | C |
When such lovers meet each other | G |
Why should prying idlers stay | C |
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Quench the timber's fallen embers | F |
Quench the recd leaves in December's | F |
Hoary rime and chilly spray | C |
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But the hearth shall kindle clearer | G |
Household welcomes sound sincerer | G |
Heart to loving heart draw nearer | G |
When the bridal bells shall say | C |
'Hope and pray trust alway | C |
Life is sweeter love is dearer | G |
For the trial and delay ' | - |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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