Karlene. 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 MB2MB2| Word 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 (william)
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