A Walk At Sunset Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDFGG HIHIJJ KLKLHH CICIMM NOPOQR STSTUU VWVXDD AYAYZZ BA2BA2B2B2

When insect wings are glistening in the beamA
Of the low sun and mountain tops are brightB
Oh let me by the crystal valley streamA
Wander amid the mild and mellow lightB
And while the wood thrush pipes his evening layC
Give me one lonely hour to hymn the setting dayC
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Oh sun that o'er the western mountains nowD
Goest down in glory ever beautifulE
And blessed is thy radiance whether thouD
Colourest the eastern heaven and night mist coolF
Till the bright day star vanish or on highG
Climbest and streamest thy white splendours from mid skyG
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Yet loveliest are thy setting smiles and fairH
Fairest of all that earth beholds the huesI
That live among the clouds and flush the airH
Lingering and deepening at the hour of dewsI
Then softest gales are breathed and softest heardJ
The plaining voice of streams and pensive note of birdJ
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They who here roamed of yore the forest wideK
Felt by such charm their simple bosoms wonL
They deemed their quivered warrior when he diedK
Went to bright isles beneath the setting sunL
Where winds are aye at peace and skies are fairH
And purple skirted clouds curtain the crimson airH
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So with the glories of the dying dayC
Its thousand trembling lights and changing huesI
The memory of the brave who passed awayC
Tenderly mingled fitting hour to museI
On such grave theme and sweet the dream that shedM
Brightness and beauty round the destiny of the deadM
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For ages on the silent forests hereN
Thy beams did fall before the red man cameO
To dwell beneath them in their shade the deerP
Fed and feared not the arrow's deadly aimO
Nor tree was felled in all that world of woodsQ
Save by the beaver's tooth or winds or rush of floodsR
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Then came the hunter tribes and thou didst lookS
For ages on their deeds in the hard chaseT
And well fought wars green sod and silver brookS
Took the first stain of blood before thy faceT
The warrior generations came and passedU
And glory was laid up for many an age to lastU
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Now they are gone gone as thy setting blazeV
Goes down the west while night is pressing onW
And with them the old tale of better daysV
And trophies of remembered power are goneX
Yon field that gives the harvest where the ploughD
Strikes the white bone is all that tells their story nowD
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I stand upon their ashes in thy beamA
The offspring of another race I standY
Beside a stream they loved this valley streamA
And where the night fire of the quivered bandY
Showed the gray oak by fits and war song rungZ
I teach the quiet shades the strains of this new tongueZ
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Farewell but thou shalt come again thy lightB
Must shine on other changes and beholdA2
The place of the thronged city still as nightB
States fallen new empires built upon the oldA2
But never shalt thou see these realms againB2
Darkened by boundless groves and roamed by savage menB2

William Cullen Bryant



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