The Mountains Of Meran At Sunrise Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIHI JKJK LMNM| Like snow white tents their tapering forms | A |
| Indent the western sky | B |
| The jewelled gifts of countless storms | A |
| Upon their summits lie | B |
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| The sinking moon with fading scars | C |
| Hath touched their frosty spires | D |
| Around them pale the wearied stars | C |
| Like waning bivouac fires | E |
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| Stray cloudlets reddening one by one | F |
| Like rose leaves half unfurled | G |
| Announce the coming of the sun | F |
| To an awakening world | G |
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| The chief peak now hath caught the glow | H |
| And soft o'er sloping walls | I |
| And buttresses of dazzling snow | H |
| The flood of splendor falls | I |
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| While miles of tender pink and gold | J |
| Incrust the blue of space | K |
| And bands of amethyst enfold | J |
| Each mountain's massive base | K |
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| Gone are the tents that pierced the skies | L |
| But in their place more fair | M |
| Transfigured flowers of Paradise | N |
| Bloom in the crystal air | M |
John L. Stoddard
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