Fragment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDEFFGGHHIAIA A JKKJLMLMNONOPQRQSTST A SMSUVWXWAYAY Z EAEHHA2HA2B2FB2FZC2Z C2M| I | A |
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| Tuscara thou art lovely now | B |
| Thy woods that frown'd in sullen strength | C |
| Like plumage on a giant's brow | B |
| Have bowed their massy pride at length | C |
| The rustling maize is green around | D |
| The sheep is in the Congar's bed | E |
| And clear the ploughman's whistlings sound | D |
| Where war whoop's pealed o'er mangled dead | E |
| Fair cots around thy breast are set | F |
| Like pearls upon a coronet | F |
| And in Aluga's vale below | G |
| The gilded grain is moving slow | G |
| Like yellow moonlight on the sea | H |
| Where waves are swelling peacefully | H |
| As beauty's breast when quiet dreams | I |
| Come tranquilly and gently by | A |
| When all she loves and hopes for seems | I |
| To float in smiles before her eye | A |
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| II | A |
| - | |
| And hast thou lost the grandeur rude | J |
| That made me breathless when at first | K |
| Upon my infant sight you burst | K |
| The monarch of the solitude | J |
| No there is yet thy turret rock | L |
| The watch tower of the skies the lair | M |
| Of Indian Gods who in the shock | L |
| Of bursting thunders slumbered there | M |
| And trim thy bosom is arrayed | N |
| In labour's green and glittering vest | O |
| And yet thy forest locks of shade | N |
| Shake stormy on that turret crest | O |
| Still hast thou left the rocks the floods | P |
| And nature is the loveliest then | Q |
| When first amid her caves and woods | R |
| She feels the busy tread of men | Q |
| When every tree and bush and flower | S |
| Springs wildly in its native grace | T |
| Ere art exerts her boasted power | S |
| That brightened only to deface | T |
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| III | A |
| - | |
| Yes thou art lovelier now than ever | S |
| How sweet 'twould be when all the air | M |
| In moonlight swims along thy river | S |
| To couch upon the grass and hear | U |
| Niagara's everlasting voice | V |
| Far in the deep blue west away | W |
| That dreaming and poetic noise | X |
| We mark not in the glare of day | W |
| Oh how unlike its torrent cry | A |
| When o'er the brink the tide is driven | Y |
| As if the vast and sheeted sky | A |
| In thunder fell from heaven | Y |
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| IV | Z |
| - | |
| Were I but there the daylight fled | E |
| With that smooth air the stream the sky | A |
| And lying on that minstrel bed | E |
| Of nature's own embroidery | H |
| With those long tearful willows o'er me | H |
| That weeping fount that solemn light | A2 |
| With scenes of sighing tales before me | H |
| And one green maiden grave in sight | A2 |
| How mournfully the strain would rise | B2 |
| Of that true maid whose fate can yet | F |
| Draw rainy tears from stubborn eyes | B2 |
| From lids that ne'er before were wet | F |
| She lies not here but that green grave | Z |
| Is sacred from the plough and flowers | C2 |
| Snow drops and valley lilies wave | Z |
| Amid the grass and other showers | C2 |
| Than those of heaven have fallen there | M |
Joseph Rodman Drake
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