Sunset On The River Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDD E FFFFGG E FHFIDD J KDKDJJ| A Sea of onyx are the skies | A |
| Cloud islanded with fire | B |
| Such nacre colored flame as dyes | A |
| A sea shell's rosy spire | C |
| And at its edge one star sinks slow | D |
| Burning into the overglow | D |
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| II | E |
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| Save for the cricket in the grass | F |
| Or passing bird that twitters | F |
| The world is hushed Like liquid glass | F |
| The soundless river glitters | F |
| Between the hills that hug and hold | G |
| Its beauty like a hoop of gold | G |
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| III | E |
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| The glory deepens and meseems | F |
| A vasty canvas painted | H |
| With revelations of God's dreams | F |
| And visions symbol sainted | I |
| The west is that each night cowled hill | D |
| Kneels down before in worship still | D |
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| IV | J |
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| There is no thing to wake unrest | K |
| No sight or sound to jangle | D |
| The peace that evening in the breast | K |
| Brings smoothing out the tangle | D |
| Of gnarls and knots of care and strife | J |
| That snarl the colored cord of life | J |
Madison Julius Cawein
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