On The Hills Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDD BEBEFFGG BHBHEEBB BBBBEEIJ| Through the pungent hours of the afternoon | A |
| On the autumn slopes we have lightly wandered | B |
| Where the sunshine lay in a golden swoon | A |
| And the lingering year all its sweetness squandered | B |
| Oh it was blithesome to roam at will | C |
| Over the crest of each westering hill | C |
| Over those dreamy enchanted lands | D |
| Where the trees held to us their friendly hands | D |
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| Winds in the pine boughs softly crooned | B |
| Or in the grasses complained most sweetly | E |
| With all the music of earth attuned | B |
| In this dear ripe time that must pass so fleetly | E |
| Golden rod as we idled by | F |
| Held its torches of flame on high | F |
| And the asters beckoned along our way | G |
| Like fair fine ladies in silk array | G |
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| We passed by woods where the day aside | B |
| Knelt like a pensive nun and tender | H |
| We looked on valleys of purple pride | B |
| Where she reigned a queen in her misty splendor | H |
| But out on the hills she was wild and free | E |
| A comrade to wander right gipsily | E |
| Luring us on over waste and wold | B |
| With the charm of a message half sung half told | B |
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| And now when far in the shining west | B |
| She has dropped her flowers on the sunset meadow | B |
| We turn away from our witching quest | B |
| To the kindly starshine and gathering shadow | B |
| Filled to the lips of our souls are we | E |
| With the beauty given so lavishly | E |
| And hand in hand with the night we come | I |
| Back to the light and the hearth of home | J |
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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