River Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCBBBA DEBEBBED FGHGHHGF IJGJGGJI AKBLBBLA| Swift and silent and strong | A |
| Under the low browed arches | B |
| Through culverts and under bridges | B |
| Sweeping with long forced marches | C |
| Down to the ultimate ridges | B |
| The sand and the reeds and the midges | B |
| And the down dropping tassels of larches | B |
| That border the ocean of song | A |
| - | |
| Swift and silent and deep | D |
| Through the noisome and smoke grimed city | E |
| Turning the wheels and the spindles | B |
| And the great looms that have no pity | E |
| Weight and pulley and windlass | B |
| And steel that flashes and kindles | B |
| And hears no forest learnt ditty | E |
| Not even in dreams and sleep | D |
| - | |
| Blithe and merry and sweet | F |
| Over its shallows singing | G |
| I hear before I awaken | H |
| The Bound of the church bells ringing | G |
| And the sound of the leaves wind shaken | H |
| Complaining and sun forsaken | H |
| And the oriole warbling and singing | G |
| And the swish of the wind in the wheat | F |
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| Sweet and tender and true | I |
| From meadows of blossoming clover | J |
| Where sleepy eyed cows are lowing | G |
| And bobolinks twittering over | J |
| Ebbing and falling and flowing | G |
| Singing and gliding and going | G |
| The river my silver shod lover | J |
| Down to the infinite blue | I |
| - | |
| Deep and tender and strong | A |
| With resonant voice and hole | K |
| To far away sunshiny places | B |
| Haunts of the bee and the swallow | L |
| Where the Sabbath is sweet with the praises | B |
| Of dumb things of weeds and of daisies | B |
| Oh river I hear thee I follow | L |
| To the ocean where I too belong | A |
Kate Seymour Maclean
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