A Nië Llo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFEF GDHD DIDI A JDDKKLLK MNNMMOOM DKJDDAAD PMMPPJJP QRRQQSTQ A UVUVWQWQ XYXYZZZZ ZA2ZA2ZB2ZB2I | A |
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It is not early spring and yet | B |
Of bloodroot blooms along the stream | C |
And blotted banks of violet | D |
My heart will dream | C |
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Is it because the windflower apes | E |
The beauty that was once her brow | F |
That the white memory of it shapes | E |
The April now | F |
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Because the wild rose wears the blush | G |
That once made sweet her maidenhood | D |
Its thought makes June of barren bush | H |
And empty wood | D |
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And then I think how young she died | D |
Straight barren Death stalks down the trees | I |
The hard eyed Hours by his side | D |
That kill and freeze | I |
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II | A |
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When orchards are in bloom again | J |
My heart will bound my blood will beat | D |
To hear the redbird so repeat | D |
On boughs of rosy stain | K |
His blithe loud song like some far strain | K |
From out the past among the bloom | L |
Where bee and wasp and hornet boom | L |
Fresh redolent of rain | K |
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When orchards are in bloom once more | M |
Invasions of lost dreams will draw | N |
My feet like some insistent law | N |
Through blossoms to her door | M |
In dreams I'll ask her as before | M |
To let me help her at the well | O |
And fill her pail and long to tell | O |
My love as once of yore | M |
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I shall not speak until we quit | D |
The farm gate leading to the lane | K |
And orchard all in bloom again | J |
Mid which the bluebirds sit | D |
And sing and through whose blossoms flit | D |
The catbirds crying while they fly | A |
Then tenderly I'll speak and try | A |
To tell her all of it | D |
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And in my dream again she'll place | P |
Her hand in mine as oft before | M |
When orchards are in bloom once more | M |
With all her young girl grace | P |
And we shall tarry till a trace | P |
Of sunset dyes the heav'ns and then | J |
We'll part and parting I again | J |
Shall bend and kiss her face | P |
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And homeward singing I shall go | Q |
Along the cricket chirring ways | R |
While sunset one long crimson blaze | R |
Of orchards lingers low | Q |
And my dead youth again I'll know | Q |
And all her love when spring is here | S |
Whose memory holds me many a year | T |
Whose love still haunts me so | Q |
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III | A |
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I would not die when Springtime lifts | U |
The white world to her maiden mouth | V |
And heaps its cradle with gay gifts | U |
Breeze blown from out the singing South | V |
Too full of life and loves that cling | W |
Too heedless of all mortal woe | Q |
The young unsympathetic Spring | W |
That Death should never know | Q |
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I would not die when Summer shakes | X |
Her daisied locks below her hips | Y |
And naked as a star that takes | X |
A cloud into the silence slips | Y |
Too rich is Summer poor in needs | Z |
In egotism of loveliness | Z |
Her pomp goes by and never heeds | Z |
One life the more or less | Z |
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But I would die when Autumn goes | Z |
The dark rain dripping from her hair | A2 |
Through forests where the wild wind blows | Z |
Death and the red wreck everywhere | A2 |
Sweet as love's last farewells and tears | Z |
To fall asleep when skies are gray | B2 |
In the old autumn of my years | Z |
Like a dead leaf borne far away | B2 |
Madison Julius Cawein
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