A Fallen Beech Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABA CDCDE DFDFD ADADA GEGEH IJIJI GGHGG AFAFA JEJEJ

Nevermore at doorways that are barkenA
Shall the madcap wind knock and the moonlightB
Nor the circle which thou once didst darkenA
Shine with footsteps of the neighbouring moonlightB
Visitors for whom thou oft didst hearkenA
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Nevermore gallooned with cloudy lacesC
Shall the morning like a fair freebooterD
Make thy leaves his richest treasure placesC
Nor the sunset like a royal suitorD
Clothe thy limbs with his imperial gracesE
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And no more between the savage wonderD
Of the sunset and the moon's up comingF
Shall the storm with boisterous hoof beats underD
Thy dark roof dance Faun like to the hummingF
Of the Pan pipes of the rain and thunderD
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Oft the Satyr spirit beauty drunkenA
Of the Spring called and the music measureD
Of thy sap made answer and thy sunkenA
Veins grew vehement with youth whose pressureD
Swelled thy gnarly muscles winter shrunkenA
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And the germs deep down in darkness rootedG
Bubbled green from all thy million oiletsE
Where the spirits rain and sunbeam suitedG
Of the April made their whispering toiletsE
Or within thy stately shadow footedH
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Oft the hours of blonde Summer tinkledI
At the windows of thy twigs and found theeJ
Bird blithe or with shapely bodies twinkledI
Lissom feet of naked flowers around theeJ
Where thy mats of moss lay sunbeam sprinkledI
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And the Autumn with his gypsy coatedG
Troop of days beneath thy branches restedG
Swarthy faced and dark of eye and throatedH
Songs of roaming or with red hand testedG
Every nut bur that above him floatedG
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Then the Winter barren browed but rich inA
Shaggy followers of frost and freezingF
Made the floor of thy broad boughs his kitchenA
Trapper like to camp in grimly easingF
Limbs snow furred and moccasined with lichenA
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Now alas no more do these invest theeJ
With the dignity of whilom gladnessE
They unto whose hearts thou once confessed theeJ
Of thy dreams now know thee not and sadnessE
Sits beside thee where forgot dost rest theeJ

Madison Julius Cawein



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