Piscataqua River Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG AAAA HAHA AIAI JBJB AKAK| Thou singest by the gleaming isles | A |
| By woods and fields of corn | B |
| Thou singest and the sunlight smiles | A |
| Upon my birthday morn | B |
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| But I within a city I | C |
| So full of vague unrest | D |
| Would almost give my life to lie | C |
| An hour upon upon thy breast | D |
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| To let the wherry listless go | E |
| And wrapt in dreamy joy | F |
| Dip and surge idly to and fro | E |
| Like the red harbor buoy | G |
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| To sit in happy indolence | A |
| To rest upon the oars | A |
| And catch the heavy earthy scents | A |
| That blow from summer shores | A |
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| To see the rounded sun go down | H |
| And with its parting fires | A |
| Light up the windows of the town | H |
| And burn the tapering spires | A |
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| And then to hear the muffled tolls | A |
| From steeples slim and white | I |
| And watch among the Isles of Shoals | A |
| The Beacon's orange light | I |
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| O River flowing to the main | J |
| Through woods and fields of corn | B |
| Hear thou my longing and my pain | J |
| This sunny birthday morn | B |
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| And take this song which fancy shapes | A |
| To music like thine own | K |
| And sing it to the cliffs and capes | A |
| And crags where I am known | K |
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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