Noon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEF EGHIJKLMENOPQERSLTKU VKWXEYZEWA2EB2C2ZEUZ EZZE D2TE2F2G2H2I2LJ2ZBEZFROM AN UNFINISHED POEM | A |
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'Tis noon At noon the Hebrew bowed the knee | B |
And worshipped while the husbandmen withdrew | C |
From the scorched field and the wayfaring man | D |
Grew faint and turned aside by bubbling fount | E |
Or rested in the shadow of the palm | F |
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I too amid the overflow of day | E |
Behold the power which wields and cherishes | G |
The frame of Nature From this brow of rock | H |
That overlooks the Hudson's western marge | I |
I gaze upon the long array of groves | J |
The piles and gulfs of verdure drinking in | K |
The grateful heats They love the fiery sun | L |
Their broadening leaves grow glossier and their sprays | M |
Climb as he looks upon them In the midst | E |
The swelling river into his green gulfs | N |
Unshadowed save by passing sails above | O |
Takes the redundant glory and enjoys | P |
The summer in his chilly bed Coy flowers | Q |
That would not open in the early light | E |
Push back their plaited sheaths The rivulet's pool | R |
That darkly quivered all the morning long | S |
In the cool shade now glimmers in the sun | L |
And o'er its surface shoots and shoots again | T |
The glittering dragon fly and deep within | K |
Run the brown water beetles to and fro | U |
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A silence the brief sabbath of an hour | V |
Reigns o'er the fields the laborer sits within | K |
His dwelling he has left his steers awhile | W |
Unyoked to bite the herbage and his dog | X |
Sleeps stretched beside the door stone in the shade | E |
Now the grey marmot with uplifted paws | Y |
No more sits listening by his den but steals | Z |
Abroad in safety to the clover field | E |
And crops its juicy blossoms All the while | W |
A ceaseless murmur from the populous town | A2 |
Swells o'er these solitudes a mingled sound | E |
Of jarring wheels and iron hoofs that clash | B2 |
Upon the stony ways and hammer clang | C2 |
And creak of engines lifting ponderous bulks | Z |
And calls and cries and tread of eager feet | E |
Innumerable hurrying to and fro | U |
Noon in that mighty mart of nations brings | Z |
No pause to toil and care With early day | E |
Began the tumult and shall only cease | Z |
When midnight hushing one by one the sounds | Z |
Of bustle gathers the tired brood to rest | E |
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Thus in this feverish time when love of gain | D2 |
And luxury possess the hearts of men | T |
Thus is it with the noon of human life | E2 |
We in our fervid manhood in our strength | F2 |
Of reason we with hurry noise and care | G2 |
Plan toil and strife and pause not to refresh | H2 |
Our spirits with the calm and beautiful | I2 |
Of God's harmonious universe that won | L |
Our youthful wonder pause not to inquire | J2 |
Why we are here and what the reverence | Z |
Man owes to man and what the mystery | B |
That links us to the greater world beside | E |
Whose borders we but hover for a space | Z |
William Cullen Bryant
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