The Daughter Of Jephthah Among The Mountains Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJKGK LMNMOPQP RSTSUVWV XYZYKPA2P MB2WB2C2D2E2D2 F2KG2KH2I2J2I2 K2EKEOL2J2L2 G2M2N2M2G2PG2P LC2O2C2YKG2P2Night bent o'er the mountains | A |
With aspect serene | B |
The deep waters slept | C |
'Neath the moon's pallid sheen | B |
And the stars in their courses | D |
Moved noiseless on high | E |
As a soul when it cleaveth | F |
In thought the blue sky | E |
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The low winds were spent | G |
With the fever of day | H |
And stirred scarce a leaf | I |
Of the green wood's array | H |
And the white fleecy clouds | J |
Hovered light on the air | K |
Like an angel's wing bent | G |
For a penitent prayer | K |
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Sleep hushed in the city | L |
The tumult and strife | M |
And calmed in the spirit | N |
The unrest of life | M |
But one where Mount Lebanon | O |
Lifted its snow | P |
Slumbered not till the morn | Q |
Wakened earth with its glow | P |
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Beneath the dark cedars | R |
Majestic sublime | S |
That for ages had mocked | T |
Both at tempest and Time | S |
In whose tops the wild eagle | U |
His eyrie had made | V |
She knelt with pale cheek | W |
In the damp mossy glade | V |
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The small hands were folded | X |
In worship divine | Y |
And the silent leaves thrilled | Z |
In that lone forest shrine | Y |
With the voice of the pleader | K |
That earnest and low | P |
Was sad as the sea shell's | A2 |
And plaintive with woe | P |
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She prayed not for life | M |
Though Youth's early bloom | B2 |
Glowed on her fair cheek | W |
And recoiled from the tomb | B2 |
But a heart pure and strong | C2 |
Sublimed by its pain | D2 |
A spirit attuned | E2 |
To the seraph's bright strain | D2 |
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She saw not the dark boughs | F2 |
That spectral and hoar | K |
With lattice work rude | G2 |
Arched her wide temple o'er | K |
She marked not their shadows | H2 |
Gigantic and dim | I2 |
Her soul was communing | J2 |
In triumph with Him | I2 |
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With the Ancient of Days | K2 |
Who from mercy seat high | E |
Beheld the pale pleader | K |
With vigilant eye | E |
And Peace with white pinion | O |
Came down from His throne | L2 |
And the gleam of her wing | J2 |
On that fair forehead shone | L2 |
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O Thou that upholdest | G2 |
The feeble and frail | M2 |
And leadest the pilgrim | N2 |
Through Life's narrow vale | M2 |
When the days that are measured | G2 |
My spirit below | P |
Shall have ceased to the past | G2 |
From the future to flow | P |
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May the Summoner find me | L |
As placid and strong | C2 |
As meet for endurance | O2 |
Of agony long | C2 |
With a faith as divine | Y |
And vision as clear | K |
As the watchers who wept | G2 |
On the hills of Jud a | P2 |
Mary Gardiner Horsford
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