Hymn Of The City Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDD EFEFGG HIJIKK LMLMBB NONOPP| Not in the solitude | A |
| Alone may man commune with Heaven or see | B |
| Only in savage wood | C |
| And sunny vale the present Deity | B |
| Or only hear his voice | D |
| Where the winds whisper and the waves rejoice | D |
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| Even here do I behold | E |
| Thy steps Almighty here amidst the crowd | F |
| Through the great city rolled | E |
| With everlasting murmur deep and loud | F |
| Choking the ways that wind | G |
| 'Mongst the proud piles the work of human kind | G |
| - | |
| Thy golden sunshine comes | H |
| From the round heaven and on their dwellings lies | I |
| And lights their inner homes | J |
| For them thou fill'st with air the unbounded skies | I |
| And givest them the stores | K |
| Of ocean and the harvests of its shores | K |
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| Thy Spirit is around | L |
| Quickening the restless mass that sweeps along | M |
| And this eternal sound | L |
| Voices and footfalls of the numberless throng | M |
| Like the resounding sea | B |
| Or like the rainy tempest speaks of thee | B |
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| And when the hours of rest | N |
| Come like a calm upon the mid sea brine | O |
| Hushing its billowy breast | N |
| The quiet of that moment too is thine | O |
| It breathes of Him who keeps | P |
| The vast and helpless city while it sleeps | P |
William Cullen Bryant
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