Floating Down The River. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACACD EFFEGEGD HIIHJHJD KJJKLKLD MNOMPMQD KNOKRKRD STTSJSJDR| My little bark glides steadily along | A |
| Still and unshaken as a summer dream | B |
| And never falls the oar into the stream | B |
| For 'tis but morning and the current strong | A |
| So let the ripples bear me as they will | C |
| Sweet sweet is Life and every sound is song | A |
| Sorrow lies sleeping and Joy sends me still | C |
| Swift floating down the River | D |
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| Bright shines the sun athwart the linden trees | E |
| One little cloud alone steals o'er the sky | F |
| As o'er the widening stream below steal I | F |
| Fann'd by the same faint perfume laden breeze | E |
| Bird music answers sweetly through the air | G |
| The unheard warbling of heart melodies | E |
| Thus go I dreaming free from faintest care | G |
| Swift floating down the River | D |
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| Pure lie the broad leaved lilies on the tide | H |
| With glowing petals in the midst that rest | I |
| Like the gold shower on Danae's lovely breast | I |
| And the tall rushes cluster on the side | H |
| Ho sweet lipp'd lily thou must be my prize | J |
| Thus shall I pluck thee in thy beauty's pride | H |
| Fail'd all too steadily my shallop hies | J |
| Swift floating down the River | D |
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| The stream fast widens and upon the shore | K |
| Rise busy hamlets 'mid the falling woods | J |
| Filling their shorn and broken solitudes | J |
| With labour's clamour ever more and more | K |
| No more no more in dreams of love all day | L |
| Rich set in music from the forests hoar | K |
| Now gaily speeds my untoss'd bark away | L |
| Swift floating down the River | D |
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| Let me take oar and turn mine eager prow | M |
| Back to the quiet waveless source again | N |
| Where no harsh sound breaks on the dreaming brain | O |
| And winds steal softly round the careless brow | M |
| Swift as a dream my tiny bark hath gone | P |
| And stoutly though I ply the oar yet now | M |
| My weary shallop still goes sadly on | Q |
| Swift floating down the River | D |
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| Ah never more for me Ah never more | K |
| Return those blessed morning hours again | N |
| The sun beats hotly on my throbbing brain | O |
| And no cool shade waves friendly from the shore | K |
| My feeble oar dips powerless utterly | R |
| And onward onward though I struggle sore | K |
| Still goes my bark towards the surging sea | R |
| Swift floating down the River | D |
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| Welcome art thou O cool and fragrant eve | S |
| Welcome art thou though night pursue thee fast | T |
| With thee the burning and the toil roll past | T |
| And there is time to gaze back and to grieve | S |
| Hoarse ocean murmurs fall upon mine ears | J |
| And round me now prophetic billows heave | S |
| As on I go out looking through salt tears | J |
| Swift floating down the River | D |
| Swift floating to the Sea | R |
Walter R. Cassels
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