A Wild Iris Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDEDEFFGHGHIIJD JDKKLMLMMMNOLOLLThat day we wandered 'mid the hills so lone | A |
Clouds are not lonelier the forest lay | B |
In emerald darkness 'round us Many a stone | A |
And gnarly root gray mossed made wild our way | B |
And many a bird the glimmering light along | C |
Showered the golden bubbles of its song | C |
Then in the valley where the brook went by | D |
Silvering the ledges that it rippled from | E |
An isolated slip of fallen sky | D |
Epitomizing heaven in its sum | E |
An iris bloomed blue as if flower disguised | F |
The gaze of Spring had there materialized | F |
I have forgotten many things since then | G |
Much beauty and much happiness and grief | H |
And toiled and dreamed among my fellow men | G |
Rejoicing in the knowledge life is brief | H |
''T is winter now ' so says each barren bough | I |
And face and hair proclaim 't is winter now | I |
I would forget the gladness of that spring | J |
I would forget that day when she and I | D |
Between the bird song and the blossoming | J |
Went hand in hand beneath the soft spring sky | D |
Much is forgotten yea and yet and yet | K |
The things we would we never can forget | K |
Nor I how May then minted treasuries | L |
Of crowfoot gold and molded out of light | M |
The sorrel's cups whose elfin chalices | L |
Of limpid spar were streaked with rosy white | M |
Nor all the stars of twinkling spiderwort | M |
And mandrake moons with which her brows were girt | M |
But most of all yea it were well for me | N |
Me and my heart that I forget that flower | O |
The wild blue iris azure fleur de lis | L |
That she and I together found that hour | O |
Its recollection can but emphasize | L |
The pain of loss remindful of her eyes | L |
Madison Julius Cawein
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