A Fallen Beech Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABA CDCDE DFDFD ADADA GEGEH IJIJI GGHGG AFAFA JEJEJNevermore at doorways that are barken | A |
Shall the madcap wind knock and the moonlight | B |
Nor the circle which thou once didst darken | A |
Shine with footsteps of the neighbouring moonlight | B |
Visitors for whom thou oft didst hearken | A |
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Nevermore gallooned with cloudy laces | C |
Shall the morning like a fair freebooter | D |
Make thy leaves his richest treasure places | C |
Nor the sunset like a royal suitor | D |
Clothe thy limbs with his imperial graces | E |
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And no more between the savage wonder | D |
Of the sunset and the moon's up coming | F |
Shall the storm with boisterous hoof beats under | D |
Thy dark roof dance Faun like to the humming | F |
Of the Pan pipes of the rain and thunder | D |
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Oft the Satyr spirit beauty drunken | A |
Of the Spring called and the music measure | D |
Of thy sap made answer and thy sunken | A |
Veins grew vehement with youth whose pressure | D |
Swelled thy gnarly muscles winter shrunken | A |
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And the germs deep down in darkness rooted | G |
Bubbled green from all thy million oilets | E |
Where the spirits rain and sunbeam suited | G |
Of the April made their whispering toilets | E |
Or within thy stately shadow footed | H |
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Oft the hours of blonde Summer tinkled | I |
At the windows of thy twigs and found thee | J |
Bird blithe or with shapely bodies twinkled | I |
Lissom feet of naked flowers around thee | J |
Where thy mats of moss lay sunbeam sprinkled | I |
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And the Autumn with his gypsy coated | G |
Troop of days beneath thy branches rested | G |
Swarthy faced and dark of eye and throated | H |
Songs of roaming or with red hand tested | G |
Every nut bur that above him floated | G |
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Then the Winter barren browed but rich in | A |
Shaggy followers of frost and freezing | F |
Made the floor of thy broad boughs his kitchen | A |
Trapper like to camp in grimly easing | F |
Limbs snow furred and moccasined with lichen | A |
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Now alas no more do these invest thee | J |
With the dignity of whilom gladness | E |
They unto whose hearts thou once confessed thee | J |
Of thy dreams now know thee not and sadness | E |
Sits beside thee where forgot dost rest thee | J |
Madison Julius Cawein
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