Hattie Howard

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The Woods Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCCAB DBEFDB GHIIJH KLDDKL DMDDDM DNKKDN OPQQOP

I love the woods when the magic handA
Of Spring as if sweeping the keysB
Of a wornout instrument touches the earthC
When beauty and song in the gladness of birthC
Awaken the heart of the desolate landA
And carol its rapture to every breezeB
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In summer's still solstice my steps are drawnD
To the shade of the forest treesB
To revel with Pan in his secret hauntsE
To pipe mazourkas while satyrs danceF
Or lull to soft slumber some favorite faunD
And fascinate strange wild birds and beesB
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I love the woods when autumnal firesG
Are kindled on every hillH
When dead leaves rustle in grove and fieldI
And trees are known by the fruits they yieldI
And the wild grapes sweetened by frost inspireJ
A mildly desperate bibulous thrillH
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There's a joy for which I would fling to the airK
My petty portion of wealth and fameL
In tracking the rabbit o'er fresh fallen snowD
The ways of the 'coon and opossum to knowD
To capture squirrels when branches are bareK
As the cupboard shelf of that ancient dameL
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Oh I long to explore the woods againD
In my own aboriginal wayM
As before I knew how culture could frownD
On a hoydenish gait and a homespun gownD
Or dreamed that the strata of proud upper tenD
Would smile at rusticity's naiveteM
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I sigh for the pleasures of long agoD
In youth's sweet halcyon timeN
When better beloved than the thoroughfareK
By multitudes trod were the woodlands whereK
Was never a path that I did not knowD
Nor thrifty sapling I dared not climbN
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Alas for lost freedom Alas for meO
For oh Society's lip would curlP
Propriety's self with scornful eyeQ
And gilt edged Fashion would pass me byQ
To know that sometimes I'm dying to beO
The romp the rover the same old girlP

Hattie Howard



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