The Big Bear Creek Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF CGCG HIHI JBJB KLKL MNMN OBOB JPJP| The waters of the Big Bear creek | A |
| Glide slowly on their way | B |
| The western lakes they surely seek | A |
| Which they will reach some day | B |
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| But sluggishly they seek their end | C |
| They scarcely seem to move | D |
| Yet through the fields and round each bend | C |
| Their progress daily prove | D |
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| By debris borne upon their breast | E |
| And strewn along each shore | F |
| They slowly move but never rest | E |
| Yet turbid evermore | F |
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| But when they reach the Johnson bend | C |
| And the Sni Chartna meet | G |
| The turbid and the sky blue blend | C |
| The union is complete | G |
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| And soon is lost all trace of mud | H |
| Of azure tint the whole | I |
| With heaven's own hue the rolling flood | H |
| Has gained the long sought goal | I |
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| So is it with the soul renewed | J |
| While on its heaven bound way | B |
| With grace divine it is embued | J |
| Yet shows the trace of clay | B |
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| And though to rest it never halts | K |
| Its progress is so slow | L |
| Alas it has too many faults | K |
| Nor much of heavenly glow | L |
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| But when God's sanctifying grace | M |
| Shall meet it from above | N |
| You seek in vain for sinful trace | M |
| It now is full of love | N |
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| A new impulse it then receives | O |
| Which speeds it on its way | B |
| To it no stain of sin now cleaves | O |
| It seeks its perfect day | B |
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| And as the azure stream has found | J |
| Its home in brimming lake | P |
| So shall the soul thus heavenward bound | J |
| Of God's own joy partake | P |
Joseph Horatio Chant
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