The Cornet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGHIHJKLKMNAN| When she came out that white little Russian dancer | A |
| With her bright hair and her eyes so young so young | B |
| He suddenly lost his leader and all the players | C |
| And only heard an immortal music sung | B |
| Of dryads flashing in the green woods of April | D |
| On cobwebs trembing over the deep wet grass | E |
| Fleeing their shadows with laughter with hands uplifted | F |
| Through the whirled sinister sun he saw them pass | E |
| Lovely immortals gone yet existing somewhere | G |
| Still somewhere laughing in woods of immortal green | H |
| Young he had lived among fires or dreamed of living | I |
| Lovers in youth once seen or dreamed he had seen | H |
| And watched her knees flash up and her young hands beckon | J |
| And the hair that streamed behind and the taunting eyes | K |
| He felt this place dissolving in living darkness | L |
| And through the darkness he felt his childhood rise | K |
| Soft and shining and sweet hands filled with petals | M |
| And watching her dance he was grateful to forget | N |
| The fiddlers leaning and drawing their bows together | A |
| And the tired fingers on the stops of his cornet | N |
Conrad Aiken
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