The Wakers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DECC FGHH BIJJ KLMM NEOO| The joyous morning ran and kissed the grass | A |
| And drew his fingers through her sleeping hair | B |
| And cried Before thy flowers are well awake | C |
| Rise and the lingering darkness from thee shake | C |
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| Before the daisy and the sorrel buy | D |
| Their brightness back from that close folding night | E |
| Come and the shadows from thy bosom shake | C |
| Awake from thy thick sleep awake awake | C |
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| Then the grass of that mounded meadow stirred | F |
| Above the Roman bones that may not stir | G |
| Though joyous morning whispered shouted sang | H |
| The grass stirred as that happy music rang | H |
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| O what a wondrous rustling everywhere | B |
| The steady shadows shook and thinned and died | I |
| The shining grass flashed brightness back for brightness | J |
| And sleep was gone and there was heavenly lightness | J |
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| As if she had found wings light as the wind | K |
| The grass flew bent with the wind from east to west | L |
| Chased by one wild grey cloud and flashing all | M |
| Her dews for happiness to hear morning call | M |
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| But even as I stepped out the brightness dimmed | N |
| I saw the fading edge of all delight | E |
| The sober morning waked the drowsy herds | O |
| And there was the old scolding of the birds | O |
John Freeman
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