In The Sugar Bush Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBDBED FGFGGHGIH JKJKKLKLL MNMNNONPP QRSRRTRTT UVUVVWVMM XFYFFZFZZ VA2VA2A2WA2WW B2A2B2A2A2LA2LL A2C2A2C2C2D2C2D2D2 E2F2E2F2F2QF2QQ G2H2G2H2H2I2H2TI2 J2FJ2FFI2FI2I2 K2FL2FFM2FM2M2 RCRRRRRRRI halted at the margin of the wood | A |
For tortuous was the path and overhead | B |
Low branches hung and roots and fragments rude | C |
Of rock hindered the tardy foot I led | B |
My timid horse that started at our tread | B |
And looked about on every side in fear | D |
Until arising from the jocund shed | B |
The voice of laughter broke upon our ear | E |
And through the chinks the light shone out as we drew near | D |
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I tied the bridle rain about a tree | F |
And on the ample flatness of a stone | G |
Awhile I lay 'Tis very sweet to be | F |
In social mirth's domain unseen alone | G |
Sweet to make others' happiness one's own | G |
And he who views the dance from still recess | H |
Or reads a love tale in a meadow prone | G |
Secures the joy without the weariness | I |
And fills with love's delight nor feels its sore distress | H |
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This mind detained me in the night but soon | J |
Far other thoughts usurped my regal soul | K |
With the Supreme made fitter to commune | J |
When human sympathy illumes the scroll | K |
And points the secrets of the mighty Whole | K |
I've spurned the earth to roam the Universe | L |
And with the Eternal deadened Time's control | K |
For refuge from the shadow of a curse | L |
Or lust of curious lore than maddest motive worse | L |
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And Thou Great Essence of all things that are | M |
Hast been to me most prodigal of grace | N |
Thou'st smiled on me in many a twinkling star | M |
The morn hath showered kisses on my face | N |
In Nature's arms thy bodily embrace | N |
Not purest poet hath more fondled been | O |
'Tis true that I have often thought to trace | N |
Instead of peace a harshness in thy mien | P |
And where I beauty sought discordant sights obscene | P |
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But not with aching heart I sought thee now | Q |
That thou might'st numb with thy narcotic night | R |
The restless pulse oblivious balm bestow | S |
Infuse this frailty with thy glorious might | R |
And blind with beauty to the mortal blight | R |
Not even wilful love possessed me when | T |
Behold thy spirit stole upon my sight | R |
And ravished me What wonder that my ken | T |
Forsook this little world of vanity and men | T |
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And howsoe'er it seemed at other times | U |
To my imperfect and diseas d mind | V |
Which darkened with the shadow of men's crimes | U |
Thy virtue fancying in thee to find | V |
Reflection of the ills that shake mankind | V |
Though on me now a tempest broke and war | W |
Convulsed the elements I would perceive behind | V |
Law harmony and purpose That falling star | M |
Seems sped to be the sun of new formed worlds afar | M |
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And yet the scene was such as often shares | X |
The obscurest soul no wondrous rarity | F |
The slender maples holding to the stars | Y |
Their outstretched arms as praying silently | F |
A sea of stars a dancing dazzling sea | F |
Tremendous mighty infinite supreme | Z |
Emblem of Might Eternity's decree | F |
Half crediting the mythologic dream | Z |
And making of heaven th' abode that vulgar fancies deem | Z |
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A common scene perchance but to the mind | V |
Which Nature hath enlightened with her ray | A2 |
Nothing in her is common Not confined | V |
Her beauty to the sparkle and the play | A2 |
Of solitary spring or rare bouquet | A2 |
Of tropic flowers she hath grandeur more | W |
Than crowns the mighty peaks of Himalay | A2 |
Or hurtles in the great Niagara's roar | W |
To me one beam of light can bring a priceless store | W |
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Nay more the mind wherein her fulness dwells | B2 |
Can beauty and sublimity instil | A2 |
In all created things till it excels | B2 |
Even herself though nurtured at her rill | A2 |
The mind may be a monarch if it will | A2 |
And that of which great Nature is the nurse | L |
May rule itself subjecting every ill | A2 |
And be the Sun all phantoms to disperse | L |
And scatter glory round Lord of the Universe | L |
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What matter whether mortals own his sway | A2 |
He knows his kingdom is not of this world | C2 |
It is within perchance some purer day | A2 |
Will see the standard of his soul unfurled | C2 |
When Good surviving sees the Evil hurled | C2 |
To final dissolution and the force | D2 |
Of worlds no longer round their centres whirled | C2 |
Shall all combine and gather to the source | D2 |
To serve some nobler end if such shall have recourse | D2 |
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Rapt in the purple transport of a god | E2 |
Pacing the ether with star treading stride | F2 |
With conscious power imperial purpose shod | E2 |
And iris crowned with radiating pride | F2 |
I seemed to move nay move what throbbing side | F2 |
Intenses immortality what brow | Q |
Thrills with severe conception deified | F2 |
As Pallas sprung Such did the gods allow | Q |
I fear 'tis half a sin to tell what I do now | Q |
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If fire be stolen from Heaven it is not | G2 |
The theft consigns the mortal to the shock | H2 |
Of the Olympian vengeance such the lot | G2 |
Of him whose earthly pride prepares the rock | H2 |
And taints the air where the penal vultures flock | H2 |
Whose after weakness welds the fettering chain | I2 |
Then gods despise and fellow mortals mock | H2 |
And here return me to the theme I've ta'en | T |
And sing the simple labors of the humble swain | I2 |
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Their voices told they gave me welcome warm | J2 |
Though oft their faces I can scarcely see | F |
For steam clouds now atween us rise and swarm | J2 |
And rolling upward find their vent in glee | F |
Like more alas too eager to be free | F |
Who fear to go yet shudder to remain | I2 |
Shall mortal spirits then be lost like ye | F |
'Tis ours the burning heart the boiling brain | I2 |
Which yield the vapor life But then ye fall in rain | I2 |
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Ye fall in rain ye change but are not lost | K2 |
Ye reach the ocean and the mighty sea | F |
Absorbs you in her bosom with the host | L2 |
Who have attested their eternity | F |
And if this world we quicken so shall we | F |
When this dim fluttering earthly scene is through | M2 |
Commingle with the heroic and the free | F |
The pure the good the beautiful the true | M2 |
Whose influence earth surrounds and sheds its freshening dew | M2 |
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I oped the door supposing still 'twas night | R |
But what a morn I seemed to half intrude | C |
In sacred fane upon a holy rite | R |
A purpled crimson peached the east and strewed | R |
The whole horizon round with amethyst hued | R |
Blue bending tints And as I forward rode | R |
And in my hallowed east such vision viewed | R |
I thought of one o'er whom this glory glowed | R |
Who like Aurora soon would leave her soft abode | R |
W. M. Mackeracher
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