The Skies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DBDBBB EBEBFF GHGHII JBJBAA BKBKBB LBLBMM NONOBB| Ay gloriously thou standest there | A |
| Beautiful boundles firmament | B |
| That swelling wide o'er earth and air | A |
| And round the horizon bent | B |
| With thy bright vault and sapphire wall | C |
| Dost overhang and circle all | C |
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| Far far below thee tall old trees | D |
| Arise and piles built up of old | B |
| And hills whose ancient summits freeze | D |
| In the fierce light and cold | B |
| The eagle soars his utmost height | B |
| Yet far thou stretchest o'er his flight | B |
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| Thou hast thy frowns with thee on high | E |
| The storm has made his airy seat | B |
| Beyond that soft blue curtain lie | E |
| His stores of hail and sleet | B |
| Thence the consuming lightnings break | F |
| There the strong hurricanes awake | F |
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| Yet art thou prodigal of smiles | G |
| Smiles sweeter than thy frowns are stern | H |
| Earth sends from all her thousand isles | G |
| A shout at thy return | H |
| The glory that comes down from thee | I |
| Bathes in deep joy the land and sea | I |
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| The sun the gorgeous sun is thine | J |
| The pomp that brings and shuts the day | B |
| The clouds that round him change and shine | J |
| The airs that fan his way | B |
| Thence look the thoughtful stars and there | A |
| The meek moon walks the silent air | A |
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| The sunny Italy may boast | B |
| The beauteous tints that flush her skies | K |
| And lovely round the Grecian coast | B |
| May thy blue pillars rise | K |
| I only know how fair they stand | B |
| Around my own beloved land | B |
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| And they are fair a charm is theirs | L |
| That earth the proud green earth has not | B |
| With all the forms and hues and airs | L |
| That haunt her sweetest spot | B |
| We gaze upon thy calm pure sphere | M |
| And read of Heaven's eternal year | M |
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| Oh when amid the throng of men | N |
| The heart grows sick of hollow mirth | O |
| How willingly we turn us then | N |
| Away from this cold earth | O |
| And look into thy azure breast | B |
| For seats of innocence and rest | B |
William Cullen Bryant
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