There Is A Hill Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCBC DEDEFFEF GHGIJJIJ KIKIIIII IJ IJLLJL MNMNOOLO IFIFJJFJ PQPQJJQJ IRIRLLRLThere is a hill beside the silver Thames | A |
Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine | B |
And brilliant underfoot with thousand gems | A |
Steeply the thickets to his floods decline | B |
Straight trees in every place | C |
Their thick tops interlace | C |
And pendent branches trail their foliage fine | B |
Upon his watery face | C |
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Swift from the sweltering pasturage he flows | D |
His stream alert to seek the pleasant shade | E |
Pictures his gentle purpose as he goes | D |
Straight to the caverned pool his toil has made | E |
His winter floods lay bare | F |
The stout roots in the air | F |
His summer streams are cool when they have played | E |
Among their fibrous hair | F |
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A rushy island guards the sacred bower | G |
And hides it from the meadow where in peace | H |
The lazy cows wrench many a scented flower | G |
Robbing the golden market of the bees | I |
And laden barges float | J |
By banks of myosote | J |
And scented flag and golden flower de lys | I |
Delay the loitering boat | J |
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And on this side the island where the pool | K |
Eddies away are tangled mass on mass | I |
The water weeds that net the fishes cool | K |
And scarce allow a narrow stream to pass | I |
Where spreading crowfoot mars | I |
The drowning nenuphars | I |
Waving the tassels of her silken grass | I |
Below her silver stars | I |
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But in the purple pool there nothing grows | I |
Not the white water lily spoked with gold | J |
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Though best she loves the hollows and well knows | I |
On quiet streams her broad shields to unfold | J |
Yet should her roots but try | L |
Within these deeps to lie | L |
Not her long reaching stalk could ever hold | J |
Her waxen head so high | L |
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Sometimes an angler comes and drops his hook | M |
Within its hidden depths and 'gainst a tree | N |
Leaning his rod reads in some pleasant book | M |
Forgetting soon his pride of fishery | N |
And dreams or falls asleep | O |
While curious fishes peep | O |
About his nibbled bait or scornfully | L |
Dart off and rise and leap | O |
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And sometimes a slow figure 'neath the trees | I |
In ancient fashioned smock with tottering care | F |
Upon a staff propping his weary knees | I |
May by the pathway of the forest fare | F |
As from a buried day | J |
Across the mind will stray | J |
Some perishing mute shadow and unaware | F |
He passeth on his way | J |
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Else he that wishes solitude is safe | P |
Whether he bathe at morning in the stream | Q |
Or lead his love there when the hot hours chafe | P |
The meadows busy with a blurring steam | Q |
Or watch as fades the light | J |
The gibbous moon grow bright | J |
Until her magic rays dance in a dream | Q |
And glorify the night | J |
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Where is this bower beside the silver Thames | I |
O pool and flowery thickets hear my vow | R |
O trees of freshest foliage and straight stems | I |
No sharer of my secret I allow | R |
Lest ere I come the while | L |
Strange feet your shades defile | L |
Or lest the burly oarsman turn his prow | R |
Within your guardian isle | L |
Robert Seymour Bridges
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