I Cannot Forget With What Fervid Devotion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJKJ ALAL AMAN| I cannot forget with what fervid devotion | A |
| I worshipped the vision of verse and of fame | B |
| Each gaze at the glories of earth sky and ocean | A |
| To my kindled emotions was wind over flame | B |
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| And deep were my musings in life's early blossom | C |
| Mid the twilight of mountain groves wandering long | D |
| How thrilled my young veins and how throbbed my full bosom | C |
| When o'er me descended the spirit of song | D |
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| 'Mong the deep cloven fells that for ages had listened | E |
| To the rush of the pebble paved river between | F |
| Where the kingfisher screamed and gray precipice glistened | E |
| All breathless with awe have I gazed on the scene | F |
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| Till I felt the dark power o'er my reveries stealing | G |
| From his throne in the depth of that stern solitude | H |
| And he breathed through my lips in that tempest of feeling | G |
| Strains lofty or tender though artless and rude | H |
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| Bright visions I mixed with the world and ye faded | I |
| No longer your pure rural worshipper now | J |
| In the haunts your continual presence pervaded | K |
| Ye shrink from the signet of care on my brow | J |
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| In the old mossy groves on the breast of the mountain | A |
| In deep lonely glens where the waters complain | L |
| By the shade of the rock by the gush of the fountain | A |
| I seek your loved footsteps but seek them in vain | L |
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| Oh leave not forlorn and for ever forsaken | A |
| Your pupil and victim to life and its tears | M |
| But sometimes return and in mercy awaken | A |
| The glories ye showed to his earlier years | N |
William Cullen Bryant
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