Along The Ohio Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GBHB GIGI BJBK BLBL BBBB CMCM| Athwart a sky of brass long welts of gold | A |
| A path of gold the wide Ohio lies | B |
| Beneath the sunset billowing manifold | A |
| The dark blue hilltops rise | B |
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| And westward dips the crescent of the moon | C |
| Through great cloud feathers flushed with rosy ray | D |
| That close around the crystal of her lune | C |
| The redbird wings of Day | D |
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| A little skiff slips o'er the burnished stream | E |
| A fiery wake that broadens far behind | F |
| Follows in ripples and the paddles gleam | E |
| Against the evening wind | F |
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| Was it the boat the solitude and hush | G |
| That with dead Indians peopled all the glooms | B |
| That made each bank meseemed and every bush | H |
| Start into eagle plumes | B |
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| That made me seem to hear the breaking brush | G |
| And as the deer's great antlers swelled in view | I |
| To hear the arrow twang from cane and rush | G |
| That dipped to the canoe | I |
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| To see the glimmering wigwams by the waves | B |
| And wildly clad around the camp fires' glow | J |
| The Shawnee chieftains with their painted braves | B |
| Each grasping his war bow | K |
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| But now the vision like the sunset fades | B |
| The ribs of golden clouds have oozed their light | L |
| And from the west like sombre sachem shades | B |
| Gallop the shades of night | L |
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| The broad Ohio glitters to the stars | B |
| And many murmurs whisper in its woods | B |
| Is it the sorrow of dead warriors | B |
| For their lost solitudes | B |
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| The moon goes down and like another moon | C |
| The crescent of the river twinkles there | M |
| Unchanged as when the eyes of Daniel Boone | C |
| Beheld it flowing fair | M |
Madison Julius Cawein
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