In The Sierra Nevada Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBAA CDEEDC FCGGCF AHAAHA IJKKLI MHNNHM OPQRPO| I lift my spirit to your cloudy thrones | A |
| And feel it broaden to your vast expanse | A |
| Oh mountains so immeasurably old | B |
| Crowned with bald rocks and everlasting cold | B |
| That melts not underneath the sun's fierce glance | A |
| Peak above peak fixed dazzling ice and stones | A |
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| Down your steep sides quick torrents leap and roar | C |
| And disappear in gloomy gorges sunk | D |
| Fringed with black pines on dizzy verges high | E |
| Poised trembling to the thunder and the cry | E |
| Of the lost waters through each giant trunk | D |
| And farthest twig and tassel evermore | C |
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| Behold far down the mountain herdsman's ranche | F |
| The rough road winding past his lonely door | C |
| And in his ears by day and night the sound | G |
| Of mad waves plunging down the gulfs profound | G |
| The tempest's gathering cry the dull deep roar | C |
| And the long thunder of the avalanche | F |
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| Night broods along the vallies while your peaks | A |
| Are pink and purple with the rays of morn | H |
| And filmy tints that swim the depths of space | A |
| To reach and kiss you first upon the face | A |
| Before the world awakes and day is born | H |
| To flush with colder gleam your rugged cheeks | A |
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| And last and longest lingering the light | I |
| Is on your mighty foreheads when the sun | J |
| Sets in the sea and makes a palace fair | K |
| For his repose of crystal wave and air | K |
| Ye seem to stoop and smile to look upon | L |
| The fallen monarch from your silent height | I |
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| Vallies are green about your rocky feet | M |
| And sweet with clambering vines and waving corn | H |
| And breath of flowers and gold of ripening fruit | N |
| Cities send up their smoke and man and brute | N |
| Beneath your wide embrazure have been born | H |
| And died for ages yet Ye hold your seat | M |
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| I lift my spirit up to you and seem | O |
| To feel your vastness penetrate my soul | P |
| And faintly see far off and looming broad | Q |
| And dread the grandeur of the world of God | R |
| And thrill to be a part of the great whole | P |
| Which towers above me a stupendous dream | O |
Kate Seymour Maclean
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