A Reed Shaken With The Wind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Not for you and me the pathB
Winding through the shadowlessC
Fields of morning's dewinessC
Where the brook that hurries hathB
Laughter lighter than a boy'sC
Where recurrent odors poiseC
Romp like with irreverent tressesC
In the sun and birds and boughsC
Build a music haunted houseC
For the winds to hang their dressesC
Whisper silken rustling inD
Ours a path that led untoE
Twilight regions gray with dewE
Where moon vapors gathered thinD
Over acres sisterlessC
Of all healthy beauty whereF
Fungus growths made sad the airF
With a phantom like caressC
Under darkness and strange starsC
To the sorrow silenced barsC
Of a dubious forestlandE
Where the wood scents seemed to standE
And the sounds on either handE
Clad like sleep's own servitorsC
In the shadowy liveryG
Of the ancient house of dreamsC
That before us fitfullyG
With white intermittent gleamsC
Of its pale lamped windows shoneH
Echoing with the dim unknownH
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IIA
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To say to hope Take all from meG
And grant me naughtE
The rose the song the melodyG
The word the thoughtE
Then all my life bid me be slaveI
Is all I craveI
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To say to time Be true to meG
Nor grant me lessC
The dream the sigh the memoryG
The heart's distressC
Then unto death set me a taskJ
Is all I askJ
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IIIA
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I came to you when eve was youngK
And where the park went downward toE
The river and among the dewE
One vesper moment lit and sungK
A bird your eyes said something dearL
How sweet it was to walk with youE
How with our souls we seemed to hearM
The darkness coming with its starsC
How calm the moon sloped up her sphereL
Of fire filled pearl through passive barsC
Of clouds that berged the tender eastE
While all the dark inanimateE
Of nature woke initiateE
With th' moon's arrival something ceasedE
In nature's soul she stood againN
Another self that seemed t' have beenD
Dormant suppressed and so unseenO
All day a life unknown and strangeP
And dream suggestive that had lainQ
Masked on with light within the rangeP
Of thought but unrevealed till nowR
It was the hour of love And youE
With downward eyes and pensive browR
Among the moonlight and the dewE
Although no word of love was spokenS
Heard the sweet night's confession brokenS
Of something here that spoke in meG
A love depth made inaudibleT
Save to your soul that answered wellU
With eyes replying silentlyG
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IVI
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Fair you are as a rose is fairF
There where the shadows dew itE
And the deeps of your brown brown hairF
Sweet as the cloud that lingers thereF
With the sunset's auburn through itE
Eyes of azure and throat of snowV
Tell me what my heart would knowV
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Every dream I dream of youE
Has a love thought in itE
And a hope a kiss or twoE
Something dear and something trueE
Telling me each minuteE
With three words it whispers clearL
What my heart from you would hearM
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VI
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Summer came the days grew kindE
With increasing favors deepW
Were the nights with rest and sleepW
Fair with poppies intertwinedE
On their blonde locks dreamy hoursC
Sunny hearted as the roseC
Went among the banded flowersC
Teaching them how no one knowsC
Fresher color and perfumeX
In the window of your roomX
Bloomed a rich azalea PinkY
As an egret's rosy plumesC
Shone its tender tufted bloomsC
From your care and love I thinkY
Love's rose color it did drinkY
Growing rosier day by dayE
Of your 'tending hand's caressC
And your own dear naturalnessC
Had imbued it in some wayE
Once you gave a blossom of itE
Smiling to me when I leftE
Need I tell you how I love itE
Faded though it is now ReftE
Of its fragrance and its colorZ
Yet 'tis dearer now than thenN
As past happiness is whenN
We regret And dimmer dullerZ
Though its beauty be when IA
Look upon it I recallA2
Every part of that old wallA2
And the dingy window highA
Where you sat and read and allA2
The fond love that made your faceC
A soft sunbeam in that placeC
And the plant that grew this bloomX
Withered here itself long deadE
Makes a halo overheadE
There again and through my roomX
Like faint whispers of perfumeX
Steal the words of love then saidE
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VIA
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All of my love I send to youE
I send to youE
On thoughts like paths that wend to youE
Here in my heart's glad gardenS
Wherein its lovely wardenS
Your face a lily seemingB2
Is dreamingB2
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All of my life I bring to youE
I bring to youE
In deeds like birds that sing to youE
Here in my soul's sweet valleyI
Wherethrough most musicallyI
Your love a fountain glistensC
And listensC
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My love my life how blessed in youE
How blessed in youE
Whose thoughts whose deeds find rest in youE
Here on my self's dark oceanS
Whereo'er in heavenly motionS
Your soul a star abidethB
And guidethB
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VIIA
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Where the old Kentucky woundE
Through the land its stream betweenO
Hills of primitive forest greenO
Like a goodly belt aroundE
Giant breasts of grandeur withB
Many an unknown Indian mythB
On the boat we steamed The landE
Like an hospitable handE
Welcomed us Alone we satE
On the under deck and sawC
Farm house and plantation drawC
Near and vanish 'Neath your hatE
Your young eyes laughed and your hairF
Blown about them by the airF
Of our passage clung and curledE
Music and the summer moonC2
And the hills' great shadows hewnC2
Out of silence and the tuneC2
Of the whistle when we whirledE
Round a moonlit bend in sight ofA
Some lone landing heaped with hayE
Or tobacco where the light ofA
One dim solitary lampD2
Signaled through the evening's dampD2
Then a bell and dusky grayE
Shuffling figures on the shoreE2
With the cable rugged formsC
On the gang plank backs and armsC
With their cargo bending o'erZ
And the burly mate beforeE2
Then an iron bell and puffA
Of escaping steam and outE
Where the stream is wheel whipped roughA
Music and a parting shoutE
From the shore the pilot's bellU
Beating on the deck belowV
Then the steady quivering slowV
Smooth advance again UntilF2
Twinkling lights beyond us tellU
There's a lock or little townG2
Clasped between a hill and hillF2
Where the blue grass fields slope downG2
So we went That summer timeH2
Lingers with me like a rhymeH2
Learned for dreamy beauty ofA
Its old fashioned faith and loveA
In some musing moment sithB
Heart associated withB
Joy that moment's quiet boreE2
Thought repeated evermoreE2
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VIIIA
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Three sweet things love lives uponI2
Music at whose fountain's brinkY
Still he stoops his face to drinkY
Seeing as the wave is drawnJ2
His own image rise and sinkY
Three sweet things love lives uponI2
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Three sweet things love lives uponI2
Odor whose red roses wreatheB
His bright brow that shines beneathB
Hearing as each bud is blownH
His own spirit breathe and breatheB
Three sweet things love lives uponI2
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Three sweet things love lives uponI2
Color to whose rainbow heI
Lifts his dark eyes burninglyF2
Feeling as the wild hues dawnJ2
His own immortalityI
Three sweet things love lives uponI2
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IXC
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Memories of other daysC
With the whilom happinessC
Rise before my musing gazeC
In the twilight And your dressC
Seems beside me like a hazeC
Shimmering white as when we wentE
'Neath the star strewn firmamentE
Love led with impatient feetE
Down the night that summer sweetE
Sparkled o'er the lamp lit streetE
Every look love gave us thenN
Comes before my eyes againN
Making music for my heartE
On that path that grew for usC
Roses red and amorousC
On that path from which oft startE
Out of recollected placesC
With remembered forms and facesC
Dreams love's ardent hands have wovenS
In my life's dark tapestryI
Beckoning soft and shadowyI
To the soul And o'er the clovenS
Gulf of time I seem to hearM
Words once whispered in the earM
Calling as might friends long deadE
With familiar voices deepW
Speak to those who lie asleepW
Comforting So I was ledE
Backward to forgotten thingsC
Contiguities that spreadE
Sudden unremembered wingsC
And across my mind's still blueF2
From the nest they fledged in flewF2
Dazzling shapes affection knewF2
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XC
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Ah over full my heart isC
Of sadness and of painS
As a rose flower in the gardenS
The dull dusk fills with rainS
As a blown red rose that shiversC
And bends to the wind and rainS
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So give me thy hands and speak meI
As once in the days of yoreE2
When love spoke sweetly to usC
The love that speaks no moreE2
The sound of thy voice may help himK2
To speak in our hearts once moreE2
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Ah over grieved my soul isC
And tired and sick for sleepW
As a poppy bloom that withersC
Forgotten where reapers reapW
As a harvested poppy flowerZ
That dies where reapers reapW
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So bend to my face and kiss meI
As once in the days of yoreE2
When the touch of thy lips was magicL2
That restored to life once moreE2
The thought of thy kiss which awakensC
To life that love once moreE2
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XII
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Sitting often I have ohV
Often have desired you soV
Yearned to kiss you as I didE
When your love to me you gaveA
In the moonlight by the waveA
And a long impetuous kissC
Pressed upon your mouth that chidE
And upon each dewy lidE
That all passion shaken IA
With love language will addressC
Each dear thing I know you byA
Picture needle work or frameM2
Each suggestive in the sameM2
Perfume of past happinessC
Till meseems the ways we knewF2
Now again I tread with youF2
From the oldtime tryst and thereF
Feel the pressure of your hairF
Cool and easy on my cheekN2
And your breath's aroma bareF
Hand upon my arm as weakN2
As a lily on a streamO2
And your eyes that gaze at meI
With the sometime witcheryF
To my inmost spirit speakN2
And remembered ecstacyC
Sweeps my soul again I seemO2
Dreaming yet I do not dreamO2
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XIIC
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When day dies lone forsakenS
And joy is kissed asleepW
When doubt's gray eyes awakenS
And love with music takenS
From hearts with sighings shakenS
Sits in the dusk to weepW
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With ghostly lifted fingerF
What memory then shall riseC
Of dark regret the bringerF
To tell the sorrowing singerF
Of days whose echoes lingerF
Till dawn unstars the skiesC
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When night is gone and beamingB2
Faith journeys forth to toilF2
When hope's blue eyes wake gleamingB2
And life is done with dreamingB2
The dreams that seem but seemingB2
Within the world's turmoilF2
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Can we forget the presenceC
Of death who walks unseenS
Whose scythe casts shadowy crescentsC
Around life's glittering essenceC
As lessens slowly lessensC
The space that lies betweenS
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XIIIC
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Bland was that October dayE
Calm and balmy as the springB2
When we went a forest wayE
'Neath paternal beeches grayE
To a valleyed openingB2
Where the purple aster floweredE
And like torches shadow heldE
Red the fiery sumach toweredE
And where gum trees sentineledE
Vistas robed in gold and garnetE
Ripe the thorny chestnut shelledE
Its brown plumpness Bee and hornetE
Droned around us quick the cricketE
Tireless in the wood rose thicketE
Tremoloed and to the windE
All its moon spun silver castingB2
Swung the milk weed pod unthinnedE
And its clean flame on the sodE
By the fading golden rodE
Burned the white life everlastingB2
It was not so much the timeH2
Nor the place nor way we wentE
That made all our moods to rhymeH2
Nor the season's sentimentE
As it was the innocentE
Carefree childhood of our heartsC
Reading each expression ofA
Death and care as life and loveA
That impression joy impartsC
Unto others and retortsC
On itself which then made gladE
All the sorrow of decayE
As the memory of that dayE
Makes this day of spring now sadE
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XIVA
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The balsam breathed petuniasC
Hang riven of the rainS
And where the tiger lily wasC
Now droops a tawny stainS
While in the twilight's purple pauseC
Earth dreams of Heaven againS
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When one shall sit and sighA
And one lie all aloneS
Beneath the unseen skyA
Whose love shall then denyA
Whose love atoneS
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With ragged petals round its podE
The rain wrecked poppy diesC
And where the hectic rose did nodE
A crumbled crimson liesC
While distant as the dreams of GodE
The stars slip in the skiesC
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When one shall lie asleepW
And one be dead and goneS
Within the unknown deepW
Shall we the trysts then keepW
That now are doneS
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XVA
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Holding both your hands in mineS
Often have we sat togetherF
While outside the boisterous weatherF
Hung the wild wind on the pineS
Like a black marauder andE
With a sudden warning handE
At the casement rapped The nightE
Read no sentiment of lightE
Starbeam syllabled withinS
Her romance of death and sinS
Shadow chaptered tragiclyF2
Looking in your eyes ah meI
Though I heard I did not heedE
What the night read unto usC
Threatening and ominousC
For love helped my heart to readE
Forward through unopened pagesC
To a coming day that heldE
More for us than all the agesC
Past that it epitomizedE
In its sentence where we spelledE
What our present realizedE
Only all the love that wasC
Past and yet to be for usC
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XVIA
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'Though in the garden gray with dewE
All life lies witheringB2
And there's no more to say or doE
No more to sigh or singB2
Yet go we back the ways we knewE
When buds were openingB2
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Perhaps we shall not search in vainS
Within its wreck and gloomX
'Mid roses ruined of the rainS
There still may live one bloomX
One flower whose heart may still retainS
The long lost soul perfumeX
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And then perhaps will come to usC
The dreams we dreamed beforeF
And song who spoke so beauteousC
Will speak to us once moreF
And love with eyes all amorousC
Will ope again his doorF
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So 'though the garden's gray with dewE
And flowers are witheringB2
And there's no more to say or doE
No more to sigh or singB2
Yet go we back the ways we knewE
When buds were openingB2
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XVIIA
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Looking on the desolate streetE
Where the March snow drifts and drivesC
Trodden black of hurrying feetE
Where the athlete storm wind strivesC
With each tree and dangling lightE
Centers sphered with glittering whiteE
Hissing in the dancing snowV
Backward in my soul I goV
To that tempest haunted nightE
Of two autumns past when weI
Hastening homeward were o'ertakenV
Of the storm and 'neath a treeI
With its wild leaves whisper shakenV
Sheltered us in that forsakenV
Sad and ancient cemeteryI
Where folk came no more to buryI
Haggard grave stones mossed and crumbledE
Tottered 'round us or o'ertumbledE
In their sunken graves and someP2
Urned and obelisked aboveA
Iron fenced in tombs stood dumbP2
Records of forgotten loveA
And again I see the westE
Yawning inward to its coreF
Of electric spasmed oreF
Swiftly without pause or restE
And a great wind sweeps the dustE
Up abandoned sidewalks andE
In the rotting trees the gustE
Shouts again a voice that wouldE
Make its gaunt self understoodE
Moaning over death's lean landE
And we sat there hand in handE
On the granite where we readE
By the leaping skies o'erheadE
Something of one young and deadE
Yet the words begot no fearF
In our souls you leaned your cheekN2
Smiling on mine very nearF
Were our lips we did not speakN2
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And suddenly alone I stoodE
With scared eyes gazing through the woodE
For some still sign of ill or goodE
To lead me from the solitudeE
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The day was at its twilightingN2
One cloud o'erhead spread a vast wingN2
Of rosy thunder vanishingN2
Above the far hills' mystic ringN2
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Some stars shone timidly o'erheadE
And toward the west's cadaverous redE
Like some wild dream that haunts the deadE
In limbo the lean moon was ledE
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Upon the sad debatableF2
Vague lands of twilight slowly fellF2
A silence that I knew too wellF2
A sorrow that I can not tellF2
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What way to take what path to goN2
Whether into the east's gray glowN2
Or where the west burnt red and lowN2
What road to choose I did not knowN2
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So hesitating there I stoodE
Lost in my soul's uncertain woodE
One sign I craved of ill or goodE
To lead me from its solitudeE
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XIXC
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It was autumn and a nightE
Full of whispers and of mistE
With a gray moon wanly whistE
Hanging like a phantom lightE
O'er the hills We stood amongN2
Windy fields of weed and flowerF
Where the withered seed pod hungN2
And the chill leaf crickets sungN2
Melancholy was the hourF
With the mystery and lonenessC
Of the year that seemed to lookN2
On its own departed faceC
As our love then in its onenessC
All its dead past did retraceC
And from that sad moment tookN2
Presage of approaching partingN2
Sorrowful the hour and darkN2
Low among the trees now startingN2
Now concealed a star's pale sparkN2
Like a fen fire winked and luredE
On to shuddering shadows whereF
All was doubtful unassuredE
Immaterial and the bareF
Facts of unideal dayE
Changed to substance such as dreamsC
And meseemed then far awayE
Farther than remotest gleamsC
Of the stars lost separatedE
And estranged and out of reachQ2
Grew our lives away from eachQ2
Loving lives that long had waitedE
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XXC
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There is no gladness in the dayE
Now you're awayE
Dull is the morn the noon is dullF2
Once beautifulF2
And when the evening fills the skiesC
With dusky dyesC
With tired eyes and tired heartE
I sit alone I sigh apartE
And wish for youE
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Ah darker now the night comes onV
Since you are goneV
Sad are the stars the moon is sadE
Once wholly gladE
And when the stars and moon are setE
And earth lies wetE
With heart's regret and soul's hard acheR2
I dream alone I lie awakeR2
And wish for youE
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These who once spake me speak no moreF
Now all is o'erF
Day hath forgot the language ofA
Its hopes of loveA
Night whose sweet lips were burdensomeP2
With dreams is dumbP2
Far different from what used to beI
With silence and despondencyI
They speak to meI
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So it ends the path that creptE
Through a land all slumber kissedE
Where the sickly moonlight sleptE
Like a pale antagonistE
Now the star that led us onwardE
Reassuring with its lightE
Fails and falters dipping downwardE
Leaves us wandering in nightE
With old doubts we once disdainedE
So it ends The woods attainedE
Where our heart's desire buildedE
A fair temple fire gildedE
With hope's marble shrine withinV
Where the lineaments of our loveA
Shone with lilies clad and crownedE
'Neath white columns reared aboveA
Sorrow and her sister sinV
Columns rose and ribbon woundE
In the forest we have foundE
But a ruin All aroundE
Lie the shattered capitalsI
And vast fragments of the wallsI
Like a climbing cloud that pliesI
Wind wrecked o'er the moon that liesI
'Neath its blackness taking onV
Gradual certainties of wanV
Soft assaults of easy whiteE
Pale approaching till the skies'I
Emptiness and hungry nightE
Claim its bulk again while sheI
Rides in lonely purityI
So we found our temple brokenV
And a musing moment's spaceI
Love whose latest word was spokenV
Seemed to meet us face to faceI
Making bright that ruined placeI
With a strange effulgence thenV
Passed and left all black againV

Madison Julius Cawein



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