A Japanese Wood-carving Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHHHIBHHHHJHKH LMNHOPQRNHHSTUAVHWH| High up above the open welcoming door | A |
| It hangs a piece of wood with colours dim | B |
| Once long ago it was a waving tree | C |
| And knew the sun and shadow through the leaves | D |
| Of forest trees in a thick eastern wood | E |
| The winter snows had bent its branches down | F |
| The spring had swelled its buds with coming flowers | G |
| Summer had run like fire through its veins | H |
| While autumn pelted it with chestnut burrs | H |
| And strewed the leafy ground with acorn cups | H |
| Dark midnight storms had roared and crashed among | I |
| Its branches breaking here and there a limb | B |
| But every now and then broad sunlit days | H |
| Lovingly lingered caught among the leaves | H |
| Yes it had known all this and yet to us | H |
| It does not speak of mossy forest ways | H |
| Of whispering pine trees or the shimmering birch | J |
| But of quick winds and the salt stinging sea | H |
| An artist once with patient careful knife | K |
| Had fashioned it like to the untamed sea | H |
| Here waves uprear themselves their tops blown back | L |
| By the gay sunny wind which whips the blue | M |
| And breaks it into gleams and sparks of light | N |
| Among the flashing waves are two white birds | H |
| Which swoop and soar and scream for very joy | O |
| At the wild sport Now diving quickly in | P |
| Questing some glistening fish Now flying up | Q |
| Their dripping feathers shining in the sun | R |
| While the wet drops like little glints of light | N |
| Fall pattering backward to the parent sea | H |
| Gliding along the green and foam flecked hollows | H |
| Or skimming some white crest about to break | S |
| The spirits of the sky deigning to stoop | T |
| And play with ocean in a summer mood | U |
| Hanging above the high wide open door | A |
| It brings to us in quiet firelit room | V |
| The freedom of the earth's vast solitudes | H |
| Where heaping sunny waves tumble and roll | W |
| And seabirds scream in wanton happiness | H |
Amy Lowell
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