A Walk At Sunset Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDFGG HIHIJJ KLKLHH CICIMM NOPOQR STSTUU VWVXDD AYAYZZ BA2BA2B2B2When insect wings are glistening in the beam | A |
Of the low sun and mountain tops are bright | B |
Oh let me by the crystal valley stream | A |
Wander amid the mild and mellow light | B |
And while the wood thrush pipes his evening lay | C |
Give me one lonely hour to hymn the setting day | C |
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Oh sun that o'er the western mountains now | D |
Goest down in glory ever beautiful | E |
And blessed is thy radiance whether thou | D |
Colourest the eastern heaven and night mist cool | F |
Till the bright day star vanish or on high | G |
Climbest and streamest thy white splendours from mid sky | G |
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Yet loveliest are thy setting smiles and fair | H |
Fairest of all that earth beholds the hues | I |
That live among the clouds and flush the air | H |
Lingering and deepening at the hour of dews | I |
Then softest gales are breathed and softest heard | J |
The plaining voice of streams and pensive note of bird | J |
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They who here roamed of yore the forest wide | K |
Felt by such charm their simple bosoms won | L |
They deemed their quivered warrior when he died | K |
Went to bright isles beneath the setting sun | L |
Where winds are aye at peace and skies are fair | H |
And purple skirted clouds curtain the crimson air | H |
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So with the glories of the dying day | C |
Its thousand trembling lights and changing hues | I |
The memory of the brave who passed away | C |
Tenderly mingled fitting hour to muse | I |
On such grave theme and sweet the dream that shed | M |
Brightness and beauty round the destiny of the dead | M |
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For ages on the silent forests here | N |
Thy beams did fall before the red man came | O |
To dwell beneath them in their shade the deer | P |
Fed and feared not the arrow's deadly aim | O |
Nor tree was felled in all that world of woods | Q |
Save by the beaver's tooth or winds or rush of floods | R |
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Then came the hunter tribes and thou didst look | S |
For ages on their deeds in the hard chase | T |
And well fought wars green sod and silver brook | S |
Took the first stain of blood before thy face | T |
The warrior generations came and passed | U |
And glory was laid up for many an age to last | U |
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Now they are gone gone as thy setting blaze | V |
Goes down the west while night is pressing on | W |
And with them the old tale of better days | V |
And trophies of remembered power are gone | X |
Yon field that gives the harvest where the plough | D |
Strikes the white bone is all that tells their story now | D |
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I stand upon their ashes in thy beam | A |
The offspring of another race I stand | Y |
Beside a stream they loved this valley stream | A |
And where the night fire of the quivered band | Y |
Showed the gray oak by fits and war song rung | Z |
I teach the quiet shades the strains of this new tongue | Z |
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Farewell but thou shalt come again thy light | B |
Must shine on other changes and behold | A2 |
The place of the thronged city still as night | B |
States fallen new empires built upon the old | A2 |
But never shalt thou see these realms again | B2 |
Darkened by boundless groves and roamed by savage men | B2 |
William Cullen Bryant
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