Witch Of Our Wilderness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEABADE AFGHEAFGHE IAJKEIAJKE LMNAELMNAE AOJDEAOJDE PMNQERMNQE STGAESTGAE AUADEAUADE| I know not why I love your baffling face | A |
| Or lonely to your cold caresses steal | B |
| Or what the charm persuades my wearied eyes | C |
| Follow the clues that gleam and wavering go | D |
| Or spell the syllables of poems new | E |
| I fancy floating through your gloom or grace | A |
| Sphinx of green riddles Time shall not unseal | B |
| Mystical knot no stratagem unties | A |
| I do not comprehend you but I know | D |
| I am not happy long away from you | E |
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| Ardent we come but that averted gaze | A |
| Discrowns emotion and your lips austere | F |
| Native to one in whom the gods confide | G |
| For us breathe only murmurs dim and lone | H |
| As are the lullabies of crooning dew | E |
| Or dwindling dirges of benighted fays | A |
| For queen marooned in a forgotten mere | F |
| Yet though 'tis not for man your witch words ride | G |
| Forsaken winds that know not why they moan | H |
| I am not happy long away from you | E |
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| Do you ignore our presence or disdain | I |
| Our pert intrusion on your fettered trees | A |
| Is all our knowledge darkness to the light | J |
| That through their woody crevices you pour | K |
| Garnered for them from suns we never knew | E |
| Or can it be your brooding peace is pain | I |
| Do sighs innumerable build the breeze | A |
| That mournful walks the soughing waste to night | J |
| But tell me why if woe be all your store | K |
| I am not happy long away from you | E |
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| You sprawl your reticence of green and gray | L |
| Over the no more mute basaltic deep | M |
| Below the sister deafness of the sky | N |
| Nor myriad boughs' hypnotic undertones | A |
| Shadows in orgy nor haphazard hue | E |
| Of flower nor green delirium will say | L |
| One shining word to beacon us who creep | M |
| Amid their bedlamry and forms awry | N |
| Yet Miser though for bread you give me stones | A |
| I am not happy long away from you | E |
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| Although we gather only in your glades | A |
| The tasteless berries of monotony | O |
| Withering leaf frustrated blossom white | J |
| Skeleton eucalypt's unmeaning woe | D |
| Or wrack of huddled tea trees knouted all askew | E |
| To serve an old wind's whim yet from wan shades | A |
| Entities ambushed seem to bear to me | O |
| On a rhythm craftsman never tameth quite | J |
| The Song all poets soaring seek and so | D |
| I am not happy long away from you | E |
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| Are you the long forgotten hermitage | P |
| Wherein immortal cities crept to sleep | M |
| And do their rooted folk unresting try | N |
| With perfumes wild of some Atlantis old | Q |
| To link our dormant hearts akin anew | E |
| Or young auspicious years do they presage | R |
| To something watching in me cradled deep | M |
| That knows unknown to me the reason why | N |
| m an orb's dim throes by iron stars controlled | Q |
| I am not happy long away from you | E |
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| Though fierce assault not pilgrim prayer avail | S |
| Nor shall we glimpse however far we seek | T |
| The long importuned palace of your pride | G |
| Yet you if darkly to my faith disclose | A |
| That duly will Hy Brasil globe in view | E |
| Ay can it be that glinting is the Grail | S |
| Do fairies gather ferns along that creek | T |
| Is very God the Merlin that you hide | G |
| Ah can I wonder necromantic Rose | A |
| I am not happy long away from you | E |
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| We listen long for words the world awaits | A |
| Nor quite lose hope that we shall overhear | U |
| Strange Huntsmen faint hallooing or surprise | A |
| The filmy spears the dark earth legions throw | D |
| Across the void against the retinue | E |
| Auroral of the solar potentates | A |
| Yet though your tongues betray the expectant ear | U |
| And dappled melancholy foils our eyes | A |
| Your trees of whispering knowledge call me so | D |
| I am not happy long away from you | E |
Bernard O'dowd
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