A Lament Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCCB A DEAAAE A FFGGGF A HHIIIH A JJKKLJ A BBMMMB| I | 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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