Bronx Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAA CDCDEE EFEFAA AAAACC DEGEHE IJIJEE AKLKAA MAMAAA| I sat me down upon a green bank side | A |
| Skirting the smooth edge of a gentle river | B |
| Whose waters seemed unwillingly to glide | A |
| Like parting friends who linger while they sever | B |
| Enforced to go yet seeming still unready | A |
| Backward they wind their way in many a wistful eddy | A |
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| Gray o'er my head the yellow vested willow | C |
| Ruffled its hoary top in the fresh breezes | D |
| Glancing in light like spray on a green billow | C |
| Or the fine frost work which young winter freezes | D |
| When first his power in infant pastime trying | E |
| Congeals sad autumn's tears on the dead branches lying | E |
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| From rocks around hung the loose ivy dangling | E |
| And in the clefts sumach of liveliest green | F |
| Bright ising stars the little beach was spangling | E |
| The gold cup sorrel from his gauzy screen | F |
| Shone like a fairy crown enchased and beaded | A |
| Left on some morn when light flashed in their eyes unheeded | A |
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| The hum bird shook his sun touched wings around | A |
| The bluefinch caroll'd in the still retreat | A |
| The antic squirrel capered on the ground | A |
| Where lichens made a carpet for his feet | A |
| Through the transparent waves the ruddy minkle | C |
| Shot up in glimmering sparks his red fin's tiny twinkle | C |
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| There were dark cedars with loose mossy tresses | D |
| White powdered dog trees and stiff hollies flaunting | E |
| Gaudy as rustics in their May day dresses | G |
| Blue pelloret from purple leaves upslanting | E |
| A modest gaze like eyes of a young maiden | H |
| Shining beneath dropt lids the evening of her wedding | E |
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| The breeze fresh springing from the lips of morn | I |
| Kissing the leaves and sighing so to lose 'em | J |
| The winding of the merry locust's horn | I |
| The glad spring gushing from the rock's bare bosom | J |
| Sweet sights sweet sounds all sights all sounds excelling | E |
| Oh 'twas a ravishing spot formed for a poet's dwelling | E |
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| And did I leave thy loveliness to stand | A |
| Again in the dull world of earthly blindness | K |
| Pained with the pressure of unfriendly hands | L |
| Sick of smooth looks agued with icy kindness | K |
| Left I for this thy shades were none intrude | A |
| To prison wandering thought and mar sweet solitude | A |
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| Yet I will look upon thy face again | M |
| My own romantic Bronx and it will be | A |
| A face more pleasant than the face of men | M |
| Thy waves are old companions I shall see | A |
| A well remembered form in each old tree | A |
| And hear a voice long loved in thy wild minstrelsy | A |
Joseph Rodman Drake
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