Roaring Brook: - Cheshire, Con Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIHJKHLMNOGOP HOQRSOTCOHUOV

It was a mountain stream that with the leapA
Of its impatient waters had worn outB
A channel in the rock and wash'd awayC
The earth that had upheld the tall old treesD
Till it was darken'd with the shadowy archE
Of the o'er leaning branches Here and thereF
It loiter'd in a broad and limpid poolG
That circled round demurely and anonH
Sprung violently over where the rockI
Fell suddenly and bore its bubbles onH
Till they were broken by the hanging mossJ
As anger with a gentle word grows calmK
In spring time when the snows were coming downH
And in the flooding of the Autumn rainsL
No foot might enter there but in the hotM
And thirsty summer when the fountains sleptN
You could go its channel in the shadeO
To the far sources with a brow as coolG
As in the grotto of the anchoriteO
Here when an idle student have I comeP
And in a hollow of the rock lain downH
And mus'd until the eventide or readO
Some fine old Poet till my nook becameQ
A haunt of faery or the busy flowR
Of water to my spell bewilder'd earS
Seem'd like the din of some gay tournamentO
Pleasant have been such hours and tho' the wiseT
Have said that I was indolent and theyC
Who taught me have reprov'd me that I play'dO
The truant in the leafy month of JuneH
I deem it true philosophy in himU
Whose spirit must be temper'd of the worldO
To loiter with these wayside comfortersV

Nathaniel Parker Willis



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