The Hunter's Vision Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII JKJKL MNMNCC OPOPQQ ARASTT UVUVWW XYXYZA2| Upon a rock that high and sheer | A |
| Rose from the mountain's breast | B |
| A weary hunter of the deer | A |
| Had sat him down to rest | B |
| And bared to the soft summer air | C |
| His hot red brow and sweaty hair | C |
| - | |
| All dim in haze the mountains lay | D |
| With dimmer vales between | E |
| And rivers glimmered on their way | D |
| By forests faintly seen | E |
| While ever rose a murmuring sound | F |
| From brooks below and bees around | F |
| - | |
| He listened till he seemed to hear | G |
| A strain so soft and low | H |
| That whether in the mind or ear | G |
| The listener scarce might know | H |
| With such a tone so sweet and mild | I |
| The watching mother lulls her child | I |
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| 'Thou weary huntsman ' thus it said | J |
| 'Thou faint with toil and heat | K |
| The pleasant land of rest is spread | J |
| Before thy very feet | K |
| And those whom thou wouldst gladly see | L |
| Are waiting there to welcome thee ' | - |
| - | |
| He looked and 'twixt the earth and sky | M |
| Amid the noontide haze | N |
| A shadowy region met his eye | M |
| And grew beneath his gaze | N |
| As if the vapours of the air | C |
| Had gathered into shapes so fair | C |
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| Groves freshened as he looked and flowers | O |
| Showed bright on rocky bank | P |
| And fountains welled beneath the bowers | O |
| Where deer and pheasant drank | P |
| He saw the glittering streams he heard | Q |
| The rustling bough and twittering bird | Q |
| - | |
| And friends the dead in boyhood dear | A |
| There lived and walked again | R |
| And there was one who many a year | A |
| Within her grave had lain | S |
| A fair young girl the hamlet's pride | T |
| His heart was breaking when she died | T |
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| Bounding as was her wont she came | U |
| Right towards his resting place | V |
| And stretched her hand and called his name | U |
| With that sweet smiling face | V |
| Forward with fixed and eager eyes | W |
| The hunter leaned in act to rise | W |
| - | |
| Forward he leaned and headlong down | X |
| Plunged from that craggy wall | Y |
| He saw the rocks steep stern and brown | X |
| An instant in his fall | Y |
| A frightful instant and no more | Z |
| The dream and life at once were o'er | A2 |
William Cullen Bryant
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