A Lament Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCCB A DEAAAE A FFGGGF A HHIIIH A JJKKLJ A BBMMMBI | A |
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White moons may come white moons may go | B |
She sleeps where wild wood blossoms blow | B |
Nor knows she of the rosy June | C |
Star silver flowers o'er her strewn | C |
The pearly paleness of the moon | C |
Alas how should she know | B |
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II | A |
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The downy moth at evening comes | D |
To suck thin honey from wet blooms | E |
Long lazy clouds that swimming high | A |
Brood white about the western sky | A |
Grow red as molten iron and lie | A |
Above the fragrant glooms | E |
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III | A |
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Rare odors of the weed and fern | F |
Dry whisp'rings of dim leaves that turn | F |
A sound of hidden waters lone | G |
Frothed bubbling down the streaming stone | G |
And now a wood dove's plaintive moan | G |
Drift from the bushy burne | F |
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IV | A |
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Her garden where deep lilacs blew | H |
Where on old walls old roses grew | H |
Head heavy with their mellow musk | I |
Where when the beetle's drone was husk | I |
She lingered in the dying dusk | I |
No more shall know that knew | H |
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V | A |
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When orchards courting the wan Spring | J |
Starred robes of buds around them fling | J |
Their beauty now to her is naught | K |
Once a sweet passion when she fraught | K |
Dark curls with blooms that nodding caught | L |
Impulse from the bee's wing | J |
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VI | A |
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White moons may come white moons may go | B |
She sleeps where wildwood blossoms blow | B |
Cares naught for fairy fern or weed | M |
White wand'rings of the plumy seed | M |
Of hart or hind she takes no heed | M |
Alas her head lies low | B |
Madison Julius Cawein
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