To Meran's Northern Mountains Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ BKBK LDLD| Breathe on my soul your everlasting calm | A |
| Majestic mountains passionless and cold | B |
| Give to my spirit drooping 'neath the palm | A |
| The rugged strength your changeless summits hold | B |
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| So thin the azure veil that floats between | C |
| My tropic flowers and your arctic snows | D |
| That one swift glance reveals to me the sheen | C |
| Of your white bastions and my blossoming rose | D |
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| Yet though so near my feet have never pressed | E |
| Your silvered ramparts etched along the sky | F |
| Untrodden crystal crowns each spotless crest | E |
| On virgin snows the sunset colors die | F |
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| So near yet unattainable Ye seem | G |
| Like awful deities at whose command | H |
| Man's evanescent life a fretful stream | G |
| One instant murmurs and is lost in sand | H |
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| Splendid in sunshine steadfast under storms | I |
| Facing the fiercest tempests with disdain | J |
| The blackest clouds that shroud your giant forms | I |
| Leave on your glittering panoply no stain | J |
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| The setting sun will turn your gray to gold | B |
| The dawn will find your icy foreheads bare | K |
| And all your glacial armor as of old | B |
| Will shine resplendent in the upper air | K |
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| So from my life may all dark clouds depart | L |
| So may I come unscathed from Fate's worst blows | D |
| Yet with your strength O Mountains let my heart | L |
| Retain as well the sweetness of the rose | D |
John L. Stoddard
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