A Forest Flute Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJKJ ALAL| I Heard a reed among the hills | A |
| A woodland reed of music where | B |
| Like madcap children ran the rills | A |
| Boisterous with wildly flowing hair | B |
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| I knew it for a pipe the Spring | C |
| Tuned to the rapture in her heart | D |
| That in the egg should shape the wing | C |
| And in the seed the wildflower start | D |
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| And I I followed where it blew | E |
| And found a valley dim and green | F |
| A wild spot like a dropp of dew | E |
| Hung glimmeringly two hills between | F |
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| I heard the flute a bird like note | G |
| That made the place a magic well | H |
| On which enchantment seemed to float | G |
| A spirit in a rainbow shell | H |
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| I knew what danced there with its flute | I |
| Unseen a part of soul and mind | J |
| I saw the imprint of its foot | K |
| In many a flower of orchis kind | J |
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| I knew it of an ancient race | A |
| Some myth the Greeks had known of old | L |
| Could I have spoken it face to face | A |
| Of what lost dreams I might have told | L |
Madison Julius Cawein
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