A Forest Idyl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCB D EEFGHHHE D IJIJIIIJ C KLKKMMMK C IBIBIIIB C CICIIIII| Beneath 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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