Lines On Revisiting The Country Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDD EFEFGG BHBHII JKJKLL MDMDNN OPOPQQ| I stand upon my native hills again | A |
| Broad round and green that in the summer sky | B |
| With garniture of waving grass and grain | C |
| Orchards and beechen forests basking lie | B |
| While deep the sunless glens are scooped between | D |
| Where brawl o'er shallow beds the streams unseen | D |
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| A lisping voice and glancing eyes are near | E |
| And ever restless feet of one who now | F |
| Gathers the blossoms of her fourth bright year | E |
| There plays a gladness o'er her fair young brow | F |
| As breaks the varied scene upon her sight | G |
| Upheaved and spread in verdure and in light | G |
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| For I have taught her with delighted eye | B |
| To gaze upon the mountains to behold | H |
| With deep affection the pure ample sky | B |
| And clouds along its blue abysses rolled | H |
| To love the song of waters and to hear | I |
| The melody of winds with charmed ear | I |
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| Here I have 'scaped the city's stifling heat | J |
| Its horrid sounds and its polluted air | K |
| And where the season's milder fervours beat | J |
| And gales that sweep the forest borders bear | K |
| The song of bird and sound of running stream | L |
| Am come awhile to wander and to dream | L |
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| Ay flame thy fiercest sun thou canst not wake | M |
| In this pure air the plague that walks unseen | D |
| The maize leaf and the maple bough but take | M |
| From thy strong heats a deeper glossier green | D |
| The mountain wind that faints not in thy ray | N |
| Sweeps the blue steams of pestilence away | N |
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| The mountain wind most spiritual thing of all | O |
| The wide earth knows when in the sultry time | P |
| He stoops him from his vast cerulean hall | O |
| He seems the breath of a celestial clime | P |
| As if from heaven's wide open gates did flow | Q |
| Health and refreshment on the world below | Q |
William Cullen Bryant
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