Karlene (i) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IBIB JKJK LMLM NOPO DQDQ RMRM SBSB MMMM TUTU AHAH VWVW FXYX UZUZ A2MA2M MB2MB2Word of a little one born in the West | A |
How like a sea bird it comes from the sea | B |
Out of the league weary waters' unrest | A |
Blown with white wings for a token to me | B |
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Blown with a skriel and a flurry of plumes | C |
Sea spray and flight rapture whirled in a gleam | D |
Here for a sign of the comrade that looms | C |
Large in the mist of my love as I dream | D |
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He with the heart of an old violin | E |
Vibrant at every least stir in the place | F |
Lyric of woods where the thrushes begin | E |
Wave questing wanderer still for a space | F |
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What will the child of his be so I muse | G |
Wood flower sea flower star flower rare | H |
Worlds here to choose from and which will she choose | G |
She whose first world is an armsweep of air | H |
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Baby Karlene you are wondering now | I |
Why you can't reach the great moon that you see | B |
Just at your hand on the edge of the bough | I |
That waves in the window pane how can it be | B |
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All your world yet hardly lies out of reach | J |
Of ten little fingers and ten little toes | K |
You are a seed for the sky there to teach | J |
And the sun and the wind and the rain as it grows | K |
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Just a green leaf piercing up to the day | L |
Pale fleck of June to come just to be seen | M |
Through the rough crumble of rubble and clay | L |
Lifting its loveliness dawn child Karlene | M |
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Fragile as fairycraft dew dream of love | N |
Never a clod that has marred the slim stalk | O |
Never a stone but its frail fingers move | P |
Bent on the blue sky and nothing can balk | O |
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Blue sky and wind laughters that is thy dream | D |
Ah the brave days when thy leafage shall toss | Q |
High where gold noondays and sunsets a stream | D |
Mix with its moving and kiss it across | Q |
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There the great clouds shall go lazily by | R |
Coo thee with shadows and dazzle with shine | M |
Drench thee with rain guerdons bless thee with sky | R |
Till all the knowledge of earth shall be thine | M |
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Wind from the ice floe and wind from the palm | S |
Wind from the mountains and wind from the lea | B |
How they will sing thee of tempest and calm | S |
How they will lure thee with tales of the sea | B |
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What will you be in that summer Karlene | M |
Apple tree cherry tree lily or corn | M |
Red rose or yellow rose gray leaf or green | M |
Which will you choose now the year's at its morn | M |
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Somewhere even now in thy heart is the will | T |
I shall be Golden Rod slender and tall | U |
I shall be Pond Lily secret and still | T |
I shall be Sweetbriar Queen of them all | U |
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I shall give shade for the weary to rest | A |
I shall grow flax for the naked to wear | H |
Figs for a feast and all comers to guest | A |
Wreaths that girls twine in the laugh of their hair | H |
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Ivy for scholars and myrtle for lovers | V |
Laurel for conquerors poets and kings | W |
Broad spreading beech boughs whose benison covers | V |
Clamor of bird notes and flutter of wings | W |
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I shall rise tall as an elm in my grace | F |
I shall be clothed as catalpa is clad | X |
Poets shall crown me with lyrics of praise | Y |
Lovers for lure of my blossoms go mad | X |
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Which shall it be baby Guess you at all | U |
Only I know in the lull of the year | Z |
You have said now where your choosing shall fall | U |
Only you have not yet heard yourself dear | Z |
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So like a mocking bird up in the trees | A2 |
I watching wondering where you have grown | M |
Borrow a note from a birdfellow's glees | A2 |
Fittest to sing you and make it my own | M |
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Only I know as I wonder Karlene | M |
Singing up here where you think me a star | B2 |
Heaven's still above me and some one serene | M |
Laughs in the blue sky and knows what you are | B2 |
Bliss Carman And Richard Hovey
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