Lake Superior. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM ENDN BOBO POPO| Father of Lakes thy waters bend | A |
| Beyond the eagle's utmost view | B |
| When throned in heaven he sees thee send | A |
| Back to the sky its world of blue | B |
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| Boundless and deep the forests weave | C |
| Their twilight shade thy borders o'er | D |
| And threatening cliffs like giants heave | C |
| Their rugged forms along thy shore | E |
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| Nor can the light canoes that glide | F |
| Across thy breast like things of air | G |
| Chase from thy lone and level tide | F |
| The spell of stillness deepening there | G |
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| Yet round this waste of wood and wave | H |
| Unheard unseen a spirit lives | I |
| That breathing o'er each rock and cave | H |
| To all a wild strange aspect gives | I |
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| The thunder riven oak that flings | J |
| Its grisly arms athwart the sky | K |
| A sudden startling image brings | J |
| To the lone traveller's kindled eye | K |
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| The gnarled and braided boughs that show | L |
| Their dim forms in the forest shade | M |
| Like wrestling serpents seem and throw | L |
| Fantastic horrors through the glade | M |
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| The very echoes round this shore | E |
| Have caught a strange and gibbering tone | N |
| For they have told the war whoop o'er | D |
| Till the wild chorus is their own | N |
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| Wave of the wilderness adieu | B |
| Adieu ye rocks ye wilds ye woods | O |
| Roll on thou Element of blue | B |
| And fill these awful solitudes | O |
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| Thou hast no tale to tell of man | P |
| God is thy theme Ye sounding caves | O |
| Whisper of Him whose mighty plan | P |
| Deems as a bubble all your waves | O |
Samuel Griswold Goodrich
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