Sunrise On The Hills Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHII JJKKLLMMNNOO PPQQRRI stood upon the hills when heaven's wide arch | A |
Was glorious with the sun's returning march | A |
And woods were brightened and soft gales | B |
Went forth to kiss the sun clad vales | B |
The clouds were far beneath me bathed in light | C |
They gathered mid way round the wooded height | C |
And in their fading glory shone | D |
Like hosts in battle overthrown | D |
As many a pinnacle with shifting glance | E |
Through the grey mist thrust up its shattered lance | E |
And rocking on the cliff was left | F |
The dark pine blasted bare and cleft | F |
The veil of cloud was lifted and below | G |
Glowed the rich valley and the river's flow | G |
Was darkened by the forest's shade | H |
Or glistened in the white cascade | H |
Where upward in the mellow blush of day | I |
The noisy bittern wheeled his spiral way | I |
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I heard the distant waters dash | J |
I saw the current whirl and flash | J |
And richly by the blue lake's silver beach | K |
The woods were bending with a silent reach | K |
Than o'er the vale with gentle swell | L |
The music of the village bell | L |
Came sweetly to the echo giving hills | M |
And the wild horn whose voice the woodland fills | M |
Was ringing to the merry shout | N |
That faint and far the glen sent out | N |
Where answering to the sudden shot thin smoke | O |
Through thick leaved branches from the dingle broke | O |
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If thou art worn and hard beset | P |
With sorrows that thou wouldst forget | P |
If thou wouldst read a lesson that will keep | Q |
Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep | Q |
Go to the woods and hills No tears | R |
Dim the sweet look that Nature wears | R |
William Henry Giles Kingston
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