The Hudson Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC DE FFGG HHII JJKL DDMM| AFTER A LECTURE AT ALBANY | A |
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| 'T WAS a vision of childhood that came with its dawn | B |
| Ere the curtain that covered life's day star was drawn | B |
| The nurse told the tale when the shadows grew long | C |
| And the mother's soft lullaby breathed it in song | C |
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| 'There flows a fair stream by the hills of the West ' | - |
| She sang to her boy as he lay on her breast | D |
| 'Along its smooth margin thy fathers have played | E |
| Beside its deep waters their ashes are laid ' | - |
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| I wandered afar from the land of my birth | F |
| I saw the old rivers renowned upon earth | F |
| But fancy still painted that wide flowing stream | G |
| With the many hued pencil of infancy's dream | G |
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| I saw the green banks of the castle crowned Rhine | H |
| Where the grapes drink the moonlight and change it to wine | H |
| I stood by the Avon whose waves as they glide | I |
| Still whisper his glory who sleeps at their side | I |
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| But my heart would still yearn for the sound of the waves | J |
| That sing as they flow by my forefathers' graves | J |
| If manhood yet honors my cheek with a tear | K |
| I care not who sees it no blush for it here | L |
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| Farewell to the deep bosomed stream of the West | D |
| I fling this loose blossom to float on its breast | D |
| Nor let the dear love of its children grow cold | M |
| Till the channel is dry where its waters have rolled | M |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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