Wood-folk Lore. To T. B. M. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GHIJJI KKLMML NNOPQO RRDSSD TTUCCU VVWJJW XXXYYS| For every one | A |
| Beneath the sun | A |
| Where Autumn walks with quiet eyes | B |
| There is a word | C |
| Just overheard | C |
| When hill to purple hill replies | B |
| - | |
| This afternoon | D |
| As warm as June | D |
| With the red apples on the bough | E |
| I set my ear | F |
| To hark and hear | F |
| The wood folk talking you know how | E |
| - | |
| There comes a Hush | G |
| And then a Tush | H |
| As tree to scarlet tree responds | I |
| Babble away | J |
| He'll not betray | J |
| The secrets of us vagabonds | I |
| - | |
| Are we not all | K |
| Both great and small | K |
| Cousins and kindred in a joy | L |
| No school can teach | M |
| No worldling reach | M |
| Nor any wreck of chance destroy | L |
| - | |
| And so we are | N |
| However far | N |
| We journey ere the journey ends | O |
| One brotherhood | P |
| With leaf and bud | Q |
| And everything that wakes or wends | O |
| - | |
| The wind that blows | R |
| My autumn rose | R |
| Where Grand Pr looks to Blomidon | D |
| How great must be | S |
| The company | S |
| Of roses he has leaned upon | D |
| - | |
| Since first he shed | T |
| Their petals red | T |
| Through Persian gardens long ago | U |
| When Omar heard | C |
| His muttered word | C |
| Rumoring things we may not know | U |
| - | |
| Our brother ghost | V |
| He is a most | V |
| Incorrigible wanderer | W |
| And still to day | J |
| He takes his way | J |
| About my hills of spruce and fir | W |
| - | |
| Will neither bide | X |
| By the great tide | X |
| In apple lands of Acadie | X |
| Nor in the leaves | Y |
| About your eaves | Y |
| Where Scituate looks out to sea | S |
Bliss Carman (william)
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