A Scene On The Banks Of The Hudson Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGHH AAIIJJKK LLFFMNOO| Cool shades and dews are round my way | A |
| And silence of the early day | A |
| Mid the dark rocks that watch his bed | B |
| Glitters the mighty Hudson spread | B |
| Unrippled save by drops that fall | C |
| From shrubs that fringe his mountain wall | C |
| And o'er the clear still water swells | D |
| The music of the Sabbath bells | D |
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| All save this little nook of land | E |
| Circled with trees on which I stand | E |
| All save that line of hills which lie | F |
| Suspended in the mimic sky | F |
| Seems a blue void above below | G |
| Through which the white clouds come and go | G |
| And from the green world's farthest steep | H |
| I gaze into the airy deep | H |
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| Loveliest of lovely things are they | A |
| On earth that soonest pass away | A |
| The rose that lives its little hour | I |
| Is prized beyond the sculptured flower | I |
| Even love long tried and cherished long | J |
| Becomes more tender and more strong | J |
| At thought of that insatiate grave | K |
| From which its yearnings cannot save | K |
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| River in this still hour thou hast | L |
| Too much of heaven on earth to last | L |
| Nor long may thy still waters lie | F |
| An image of the glorious sky | F |
| Thy fate and mine are not repose | M |
| And ere another evening close | N |
| Thou to thy tides shalt turn again | O |
| And I to seek the crowd of men | O |
William Cullen Bryant
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