To Mrs. Macmarland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDCDC EFEFGFGF HIHIJIJI KLKMNLNL| IN Schnee der Alpen so it runs | A |
| To those divine accords and here | B |
| We dwell in Alpine snows and suns | A |
| A motley crew for half the year | C |
| A motley crew we dwell to taste | D |
| A shivering band in hope and fear | C |
| That sun upon the snowy waste | D |
| That Alpine ether cold and clear | C |
| - | |
| Up from the laboured plains and up | E |
| From low sea levels we arise | F |
| To drink of that diviner cup | E |
| The rarer air the clearer skies | F |
| For as the great old godly King | G |
| From mankind's turbid valley cries | F |
| So all we mountain lovers sing | G |
| I to the hills will lift mine eyes | F |
| - | |
| The bells that ring the peaks that climb | H |
| The frozen snow's unbroken curd | I |
| Might yet revindicate in rhyme | H |
| The pauseless stream the absent bird | I |
| In vain for to the deeps of life | J |
| You lady you my heart have stirred | I |
| And since you say you love my life | J |
| Be sure I love you for the word | I |
| - | |
| Of kindness here I nothing say | K |
| Such loveless kindnesses there are | L |
| In that grimacing common way | K |
| That old unhonoured social war | M |
| Love but my dog and love my love | N |
| Adore with me a common star | L |
| I value not the rest above | N |
| The ashes of a bad cigar | L |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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