To A Friend Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDDDC EFCGGGC FFHIIIH JJFKKKF LLHFFFH MMFNNNF OOFFFFF PQFFFFF FMFRRRF SSHTTTH UUCDDDC FFFVVWF| ON HER RETURN FROM EUROPE | A |
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| How smiled the land of France | B |
| Under thy blue eye's glance | B |
| Light hearted rover | C |
| Old walls of chateaux gray | D |
| Towers of an early day | D |
| Which the Three Colors play | D |
| Flauntingly over | C |
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| Now midst the brilliant train | E |
| Thronging the banks of Seine | F |
| Now midst the splendor | C |
| Of the wild Alpine range | G |
| Waking with change on change | G |
| Thoughts in thy young heart strange | G |
| Lovely and tender | C |
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| Vales soft Elysian | F |
| Like those in the vision | F |
| Of Mirza when dreaming | H |
| He saw the long hollow dell | I |
| Touched by the prophet's spell | I |
| Into an ocean swell | I |
| With its isles teeming | H |
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| Cliffs wrapped in snows of years | J |
| Splintering with icy spears | J |
| Autumn's blue heaven | F |
| Loose rock and frozen slide | K |
| Hung on the mountain side | K |
| Waiting their hour to glide | K |
| Downward storm driven | F |
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| Rhine stream by castle old | L |
| Baron's and robber's hold | L |
| Peacefully flowing | H |
| Sweeping through vineyards green | F |
| Or where the cliffs are seen | F |
| O'er the broad wave between | F |
| Grim shadows throwing | H |
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| Or where St Peter's dome | M |
| Swells o'er eternal Rome | M |
| Vast dim and solemn | F |
| Hymns ever chanting low | N |
| Censers swung to and fro | N |
| Sable stoles sweeping slow | N |
| Cornice and column | F |
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| Oh as from each and all | O |
| Will there not voices call | O |
| Evermore back again | F |
| In the mind's gallery | F |
| Wilt thou not always see | F |
| Dim phantoms beckon thee | F |
| O'er that old track again | F |
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| New forms thy presence haunt | P |
| New voices softly chant | Q |
| New faces greet thee | F |
| Pilgrims from many a shrine | F |
| Hallowed by poet's line | F |
| At memory's magic sign | F |
| Rising to meet thee | F |
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| And when such visions come | F |
| Unto thy olden home | M |
| Will they not waken | F |
| Deep thoughts of Him whose hand | R |
| Led thee o'er sea and land | R |
| Back to the household band | R |
| Whence thou wast taken | F |
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| While at the sunset time | S |
| Swells the cathedral's chime | S |
| Yet in thy dreaming | H |
| While to thy spirit's eye | T |
| Yet the vast mountains lie | T |
| Piled in the Switzer's sky | T |
| Icy and gleaming | H |
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| Prompter of silent prayer | U |
| Be the wild picture there | U |
| In the mind's chamber | C |
| And through each coming day | D |
| Him who as staff and stay | D |
| Watched o'er thy wandering way | D |
| Freshly remember | C |
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| So when the call shall be | F |
| Soon or late unto thee | F |
| As to all given | F |
| Still may that picture live | V |
| All its fair forms survive | V |
| And to thy spirit give | W |
| Gladness in Heaven | F |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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