Noon. - From An Unfinished Poem. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE DFGHIJKLDMNOPDQRKSJT UJVWDXYDVZDA2B2YDTYD YYD C2SD2E2F2G2H2KI2YADY

'Tis noon At noon the Hebrew bowed the kneeA
And worshipped while the husbandmen withdrewB
From the scorched field and the wayfaring manC
Grew faint and turned aside by bubbling fountD
Or rested in the shadow of the palmE
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I too amid the overflow of dayD
Behold the power which wields and cherishesF
The frame of Nature From this brow of rockG
That overlooks the Hudson's western margeH
I gaze upon the long array of grovesI
The piles and gulfs of verdure drinking inJ
The grateful heats They love the fiery sunK
Their broadening leaves grow glossier and their spraysL
Climb as he looks upon them In the midstD
The swelling river into his green gulfsM
Unshadowed save by passing sails aboveN
Takes the redundant glory and enjoysO
The summer in his chilly bed Coy flowersP
That would not open in the early lightD
Push back their plaited sheaths The rivulet's poolQ
That darkly quivered all the morning longR
In the cool shade now glimmers in the sunK
And o'er its surface shoots and shoots againS
The glittering dragon fly and deep withinJ
Run the brown water beetles to and froT
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A silence the brief sabbath of an hourU
Reigns o'er the fields the laborer sits withinJ
His dwelling he has left his steers awhileV
Unyoked to bite the herbage and his dogW
Sleeps stretched beside the door stone in the shadeD
Now the grey marmot with uplifted pawsX
No more sits listening by his den but stealsY
Abroad in safety to the clover fieldD
And crops its juicy blossoms All the whileV
A ceaseless murmur from the populous townZ
Swells o'er these solitudes a mingled soundD
Of jarring wheels and iron hoofs that clashA2
Upon the stony ways and hammer clangB2
And creak of engines lifting ponderous bulksY
And calls and cries and tread of eager feetD
Innumerable hurrying to and froT
Noon in that mighty mart of nations bringsY
No pause to toil and care With early dayD
Began the tumult and shall only ceaseY
When midnight hushing one by one the soundsY
Of bustle gathers the tired brood to restD
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Thus in this feverish time when love of gainC2
And luxury possess the hearts of menS
Thus is it with the noon of human lifeD2
We in our fervid manhood in our strengthE2
Of reason we with hurry noise and careF2
Plan toil and strife and pause not to refreshG2
Our spirits with the calm and beautifulH2
Of God's harmonious universe that wonK
Our youthful wonder pause not to inquireI2
Why we are here and what the reverenceY
Man owes to man and what the mysteryA
That links us to the greater world besideD
Whose borders we but hover for a spaceY

William Cullen Bryant



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