The River Path Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC DD EE FF GG HH II DD JJ KK LL MM NN EE OO CC EE PQ R| No bird song floated down the hill | A |
| The tangled bank below was still | A |
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| No rustle from the birchen stem | B |
| No ripple from the water's hem | B |
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| The dusk of twilight round us grew | C |
| We felt the falling of the dew | C |
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| For from us ere the day was done | D |
| The wooded hills shut out the sun | D |
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| But on the river's farther side | E |
| We saw the hill tops glorified | E |
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| A tender glow exceeding fair | F |
| A dream of day without its glare | F |
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| With us the damp the chill the gloom | G |
| With them the sunset's rosy bloom | G |
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| While dark through willowy vistas seen | H |
| The river rolled in shade between | H |
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| From out the darkness where we trod | I |
| We gazed upon those bills of God | I |
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| Whose light seemed not of moon or sun | D |
| We spake not but our thought was one | D |
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| We paused as if from that bright shore | J |
| Beckoned our dear ones gone before | J |
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| And stilled our beating hearts to hear | K |
| The voices lost to mortal ear | K |
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| Sudden our pathway turned from night | L |
| The hills swung open to the light | L |
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| Through their green gates the sunshine showed | M |
| A long slant splendor downward flowed | M |
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| Down glade and glen and bank it rolled | N |
| It bridged the shaded stream with gold | N |
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| And borne on piers of mist allied | E |
| The shadowy with the sunlit side | E |
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| 'So ' prayed we 'when our feet draw near | O |
| The river dark with mortal fear | O |
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| 'And the night cometh chill with dew | C |
| O Father let Thy light break through | C |
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| 'So let the hills of doubt divide | E |
| So bridge with faith the sunless tide | E |
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| 'So let the eyes that fail on earth | P |
| On Thy eternal hills look forth | Q |
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| 'And in Thy beckoning angels know | R |
| The dear ones whom we loved below ' | - |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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