The Skater Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FF GH II JJ KK LL EE MM NN| My glad feet shod with the glittering steel | A |
| I was the god of the wing egrave d heel | A |
| The hills in the far white sky were lost | B |
| The world lay still in the wide white frost | B |
| And the woods hung hushed in their long white dream | C |
| By the ghostly glimmering ice blue stream | C |
| Here was a pathway smooth like glass | D |
| Where I and the wandering wind might pass | D |
| To the far off palaces drifted deep | E |
| Where Winter's retinue rests in sleep | E |
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| I followed the lure I fled like a bird | F |
| Till the startled hollows awoke and heard | F |
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| A spinning whisper a sibilant twang | G |
| As the stroke of the steel on the tense ice rang | H |
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| And the wandering wind was left behind | I |
| As faster faster I followed my mind | I |
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| Till the blood sang high in my eager brain | J |
| And the joy of my flight was almost pain | J |
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| The I stayed the rush of my eager speed | K |
| And silently went as a drifting seed | K |
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| Slowly furtively till my eyes | L |
| Grew big with the awe of a dim surmise | L |
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| And the hair of my neck began to creep | E |
| At hearing the wilderness talk in sleep | E |
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| Shapes in the fir gloom drifted near | M |
| In the deep of my heart I heard my fear | M |
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| And I turned and fled like a soul pursued | N |
| From the white inviolate solitude | N |
Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
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