Fragments Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDEFFGGHHIAIA A JKKJLMLMNONOPQRQSTST A SMSUVWXWAYAY EAEHHZHZA2FA2F B2 B2MI | 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 |
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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 |
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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 | - |
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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 | Z |
With scenes of sighing tales before me | H |
And one green maiden grave in sight | Z |
How mournfully the strain would rise | A2 |
Of that true maid whose fate can yet | F |
Draw rainy tears from stubborn eyes | A2 |
From lids that ne'er before were wet | F |
She lies not here but that green grave | - |
Is sacred from the plough and flowers | B2 |
Snow drops and valley lilies wave | - |
Amid the grass and other showers | B2 |
Than those of heaven have fallen there | M |
Joseph Rodman Drake
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