A Forest Idyl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCB D EEFGHHHE D IJIJIIIJ C KLKKMMMK C IBIBIIIB C CICIIIIIBeneath an old beech tree | A |
They sat together | B |
Fair as a flower was she | A |
Of summer weather | B |
They spoke of life and love | C |
While through the boughs above | C |
The sunlight like a dove | C |
Dropped many a feather | B |
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II | D |
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And there the violet | E |
The bluet near it | E |
Made blurs of azure wet | F |
As if some spirit | G |
Or woodland dream had gone | H |
Sprinkling the earth with dawn | H |
When only Fay and Faun | H |
Could see or hear it | E |
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III | D |
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She with her young sweet face | I |
And eyes gray beaming | J |
Made of that forest place | I |
A spot for dreaming | J |
A spot for Oreads | I |
To smooth their nut brown braids | I |
For Dryads of the glades | I |
To dance in gleaming | J |
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IV | C |
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So dim the place so blest | K |
One had not wondered | L |
Had Dian's moon d breast | K |
The deep leaves sundered | K |
And there on them awhile | M |
The goddess deigned to smile | M |
While down some forest aisle | M |
The far hunt thundered | K |
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V | C |
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I deem that hour perchance | I |
Was but a mirror | B |
To show them Earth's romance | I |
And draw them nearer | B |
A mirror where meseems | I |
All that this Earth life dreams | I |
All loveliness that gleams | I |
Their souls saw clearer | B |
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VI | C |
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Beneath an old beech tree | C |
They dreamed of blisses | I |
Fair as a flower was she | C |
That summer kisses | I |
They spoke of dreams and days | I |
Of love that goes and stays | I |
Of all for which life prays | I |
Ah me and misses | I |
Madison Julius Cawein
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