The Crystal Spring Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEF DDGHD IJKLJ MNOPQ RBBSB TUDNU RIDVI A WXYDX ZA2B2C2A2 DD2DKD2 E2F2G2JF2 XJH2DJ RFOAF G2I2TJ2I2 A DBK2JB DFL2M2C N2DXDD O2DG2DD P2WQ2GWI | A |
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Fair spirit of the plaining sea | B |
Thou heard'st Apollo's lyre | C |
Now folded are thy silver wings | D |
Thee sunward bore | E |
A dream and a desire | F |
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Ranging the upper azure deeps | D |
The sunlight on thy wings | D |
How blanched thy purpose as there fell | G |
The lightning's stroke | H |
And darkness on all things | D |
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In agony of rain and hail | I |
And phantom dance of snow | J |
The chastening angels of the air | K |
To mountain bleak | L |
Consigned thee far below | J |
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There in the arms of heartless frost | M |
And burdened with thy train | N |
The keen stars watched thy ageful way | O |
Till breast of earth | P |
Warmed thee to life again | Q |
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And in thy course thou wert God's plow | R |
Thy furrow deep the valley | B |
Of wooded walls and flowers to be | B |
The circling sun | S |
Keeps slow and sure the tally | B |
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Reborn thou waitedst not far down | T |
The sunless caves to speed | U |
Thy twin lade with unfabled spoils | D |
Did build the plain | N |
Or green the expectant mead | U |
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And weave the fabric forge the plow | R |
Bear inland steam and sail | I |
Or serv'dst in mines and nether realms | D |
Of shadowland | V |
The gnomes and genii pale | I |
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II | A |
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O fontal wealth of hasting life | W |
By stressful toil made sweet | X |
Stay now thy journey here oft come | Y |
Wild sylvan things | D |
Here tender lovers meet | X |
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By day the traveller spies the path | Z |
To thy o'erbending shade | A2 |
Drinks deep the brimming cooling wave | B2 |
A living draught | C2 |
And wends his way remade | A2 |
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At night the one shy Pleiad drops | D |
Her veil to look within | D2 |
Thy clear green haloed deeps and sees | D |
Herself more fair | K |
Than all her shining kin | D2 |
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And fair with labor's healthy toil | E2 |
Each face of yon dear home | F2 |
Thou'st set within the pearly blue | G2 |
Or crocus glow | J |
Of overarching dome | F2 |
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And when return world wandering feet | X |
Elate or slow with sorrow | J |
Thy pencil paints the changing form | H2 |
And here clasp hands | D |
The yester year and morrow | J |
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O bright reincarnation thou | R |
Though long thy heart like fire | F |
Burned to mount upward and away | O |
To sun and sky | A |
A dream and a desire | F |
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Here here thy place and service too | G2 |
'Tis heaven by thee to sup | I2 |
To see the great red sun drop down | T |
The stars swim out | J2 |
O Nature's loving cup | I2 |
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III | A |
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And here the crystal spring abides | D |
Yet passes to the sea | B |
There to renew the broken task | K2 |
Of long ago | J |
Now joyous task and free | B |
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Fair spirit of the bourneless waves | D |
Glad voice in their sad choir | F |
Sweeter 'mid sorrow's dirge to blend | L2 |
The note of cheer | M2 |
Than list Apollo's lyre | C |
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The sunbeams kiss the plaining deep | N2 |
Wreathe with innumerous smiles | D |
The sounding waters as they meet | X |
While sister sprites | D |
Wake laughter round the isles | D |
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And ever as the rolling moon | O2 |
The unanchored sea forth swings | D |
The poet's ear may catch anew | G2 |
The gladsome notes | D |
Notes of the crystal springs | D |
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And when he sits this spring beside | P2 |
Worn with the journey's strife | W |
He cannot help but think of HIM | Q2 |
Of Jacob's well | G |
FOUNT of the deathless life | W |
Theodore Harding Rand
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