Nearing The Snow-line Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDCEEC| Slow toiling upward from' the misty vale | A |
| I leave the bright enamelled zones below | B |
| No more for me their beauteous bloom shall glow | B |
| Their lingering sweetness load the morning gale | A |
| Few are the slender flowerets scentless pale | A |
| That on their ice clad stems all trembling blow | B |
| Along the margin of unmelting snow | B |
| Yet with unsaddened voice thy verge I hail | A |
| White realm of peace above the flowering line | C |
| Welcome thy frozen domes thy rocky spires | D |
| O'er thee undimmed the moon girt planets shine | C |
| On thy majestic altars fade the fires | E |
| That filled the air with smoke of vain desires | E |
| And all the unclouded blue of heaven is thine | C |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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