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 P2WQ2GW| I | 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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