On The River Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABBB CCCDDD EEEFFF GGGHHH| The sun is low | A |
| The waters flow | A |
| My boat is dancing to and fro | A |
| The eve is still | B |
| Yet from the hill | B |
| The killdeer echoes loud and shrill | B |
| - | |
| The paddles plash | C |
| The wavelets dash | C |
| We see the summer lightning flash | C |
| While now and then | D |
| In marsh and fen | D |
| Too muddy for the feet of men | D |
| - | |
| Where neither bird | E |
| Nor beast has stirred | E |
| The spotted bullfrog's croak is heard | E |
| The wind is high | F |
| The grasses sigh | F |
| The sluggish stream goes sobbing by | F |
| - | |
| And far away | G |
| The dying day | G |
| Has cast its last effulgent ray | G |
| While on the land | H |
| The shadows stand | H |
| Proclaiming that the eve's at hand | H |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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