A Character Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEF GGHHIIJJKKHHLLMM NNHHOOPPQQRRSSDD TTDDUUDDDDDDEF| He lived beyond us and we stood | A |
| As pygmies to his every mood | B |
| Mere pupils at his beck and nod | C |
| That spoke the influence of a god | C |
| And oft we wondered when his thought | D |
| Made our humanity seem naught | D |
| If he like Uther's mystic son | E |
| Were not a birth for Avalon | F |
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| When wand'ring 'neath the sighing trees | G |
| His soul waxed genial with the breeze | G |
| That voiceful from the piney glades | H |
| Companioned seemed of Oreads | H |
| A Dryad life lived in each oak | I |
| And with its many leaf tongues spoke | I |
| Glorying the deity whose power | J |
| Gave it its life in sun and shower | J |
| By every violet hallowed brook | K |
| Where every bramble matted nook | K |
| Rippled and laughed with water sounds | H |
| He walked as one on sainted grounds | H |
| Fearing intrusion on the spell | L |
| That kept some fountain spirit's well | L |
| Or woodland genius sitting where | M |
| Brown racy berries kissed his hair | M |
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| And when the wind far o'er the hill | N |
| Had fall'n and left the wildwood still | N |
| As moonlight jets on quiet moss | H |
| Beneath the pied boughs arched across | H |
| Long limpid vistas brimmed with ripe | O |
| Green swimming sunbeams heard the pipe | O |
| Of some hid follower of Pan | P |
| And worshiper half brute half man | P |
| Who hairy haunched a savage rhyme | Q |
| Puffed in his reed to rudest time | Q |
| With swollen jowl and rolling eye | R |
| Danced boisterous where the silver sky | R |
| Smiled in the forest's broken roof | S |
| The strident branch beneath his hoof | S |
| Snapped on the sod which interfused | D |
| Between black roots was crushed and bruised | D |
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| And often when he wandered through | T |
| Old forests at the fall of dew | T |
| A lone Endymion who sought | D |
| A higher beauty yet uncaught | D |
| Some night we thought most surely he | U |
| Were favored of her deity | U |
| And in the holy solitude | D |
| Her sudden presence long pursued | D |
| Unto his eyes would be confessed | D |
| The awful moonlight of her breast | D |
| Come high with majesty and hold | D |
| His heart's blood till his heart were cold | D |
| Unpulsed unsinewed all undone | E |
| And snatch his soul to Avalon | F |
Madison Julius Cawein
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