Roaring Brook: - Cheshire, Con Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIHJKHLMNOGOP HOQRSOTCOHUOV| It was a mountain stream that with the leap | A |
| Of its impatient waters had worn out | B |
| A channel in the rock and wash'd away | C |
| The earth that had upheld the tall old trees | D |
| Till it was darken'd with the shadowy arch | E |
| Of the o'er leaning branches Here and there | F |
| It loiter'd in a broad and limpid pool | G |
| That circled round demurely and anon | H |
| Sprung violently over where the rock | I |
| Fell suddenly and bore its bubbles on | H |
| Till they were broken by the hanging moss | J |
| As anger with a gentle word grows calm | K |
| In spring time when the snows were coming down | H |
| And in the flooding of the Autumn rains | L |
| No foot might enter there but in the hot | M |
| And thirsty summer when the fountains slept | N |
| You could go its channel in the shade | O |
| To the far sources with a brow as cool | G |
| As in the grotto of the anchorite | O |
| Here when an idle student have I come | P |
| And in a hollow of the rock lain down | H |
| And mus'd until the eventide or read | O |
| Some fine old Poet till my nook became | Q |
| A haunt of faery or the busy flow | R |
| Of water to my spell bewilder'd ear | S |
| Seem'd like the din of some gay tournament | O |
| Pleasant have been such hours and tho' the wise | T |
| Have said that I was indolent and they | C |
| Who taught me have reprov'd me that I play'd | O |
| The truant in the leafy month of June | H |
| I deem it true philosophy in him | U |
| Whose spirit must be temper'd of the world | O |
| To loiter with these wayside comforters | V |
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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