Duddingstone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MDND OPDP QRDR| WITH caws and chirrupings the woods | A |
| In this thin sun rejoice | B |
| The Psalm seems but the little kirk | C |
| That sings with its own voice | B |
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| The cloud rifts share their amber light | D |
| With the surface of the mere | E |
| I think the very stones are glad | F |
| To feel each other near | E |
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| Once more my whole heart leaps and swells | G |
| And gushes o'er with glee | H |
| The fingers of the sun and shade | I |
| Touch music stops in me | H |
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| Now fancy paints that bygone day | J |
| When you were here my fair | K |
| The whole lake rang with rapid skates | L |
| In the windless winter air | K |
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| You leaned to me I leaned to you | M |
| Our course was smooth as flight | D |
| We steered a heel touch to the left | N |
| A heel touch to the right | D |
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| We swung our way through flying men | O |
| Your hand lay fast in mine | P |
| We saw the shifting crowd dispart | D |
| The level ice reach shine | P |
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| I swear by yon swan travelled lake | Q |
| By yon calm hill above | R |
| I swear had we been drowned that day | D |
| We had been drowned in love | R |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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