The Two Streams Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEC GHGH IJIJ| Behold the rocky wall | A |
| That down its sloping sides | B |
| Pours the swift rain drops blending as they fall | A |
| In rushing river tides | B |
| Yon stream whose sources run | C |
| Turned by a pebble's edge | D |
| Is Athabasca rolling toward the sun | C |
| Through the cleft mountain ledge | D |
| The slender rill had strayed | E |
| But for the slanting stone | F |
| To evening's ocean with the tangled braid | E |
| Of foam flecked Oregon | C |
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| So from the heights of Will | G |
| Life's parting stream descends | H |
| And as a moment turns its slender rill | G |
| Each widening torrent bends | H |
| - | |
| From the same cradle's side | I |
| From the same mother's knee | J |
| One to long darkness and the frozen tide | I |
| One to the Peaceful Sea | J |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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