The Arctic Lover Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCB DEDEFFE GHGHIIH JKJKLLK MNMHOOH DPDPQQP| Gone is the long long winter night | A |
| Look my beloved one | B |
| How glorious through his depths of light | A |
| Rolls the majestic sun | B |
| The willows waked from winter's death | C |
| Give out a fragrance like thy breath | C |
| The summer is begun | B |
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| Ay 'tis the long bright summer day | D |
| Hark to that mighty crash | E |
| The loosened ice ridge breaks away | D |
| The smitten waters flash | E |
| Seaward the glittering mountain rides | F |
| While down its green translucent sides | F |
| The foamy torrents dash | E |
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| See love my boat is moored for thee | G |
| By ocean's weedy floor | H |
| The petrel does not skim the sea | G |
| More swiftly than my oar | H |
| We'll go where on the rocky isles | I |
| Her eggs the screaming sea fowl piles | I |
| Beside the pebbly shore | H |
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| Or bide thou where the poppy blows | J |
| With wind flowers frail and fair | K |
| While I upon his isle of snows | J |
| Seek and defy the bear | K |
| Fierce though he be and huge of frame | L |
| This arm his savage strength shall tame | L |
| And drag him from his lair | K |
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| When crimson sky and flamy cloud | M |
| Bespeak the summer o'er | N |
| And the dead valleys wear a shroud | M |
| Of snows that melt no more | H |
| I'll build of ice thy winter home | O |
| With glistening walls and glassy dome | O |
| And spread with skins the floor | H |
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| The white fox by thy couch shall play | D |
| And from the frozen skies | P |
| The meteors of a mimic day | D |
| Shall flash upon thine eyes | P |
| And I for such thy vow meanwhile | Q |
| Shall hear thy voice and see thy smile | Q |
| Till that long midnight flies | P |
William Cullen Bryant
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