After The Rain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCDEBAEBFFGG HIIHHJJ KLKLMLKNOK PPQRRSPPTQT RUUURVARVABehold the blossom bosomed Day again | A |
With all the star white Hours in her train | B |
Laughs out of pearl lights through a golden ray | C |
That leaning on the woodland wildness blends | D |
A sprinkled amber with the showers that lay | C |
Their oblong emeralds on the leafy ends | D |
Behold her bend with maiden braided brows | E |
Above the wildflower sidewise with its strain | B |
Of dewy happiness to kiss again | A |
Each drop to death or under rainy boughs | E |
With fingers fragrant as the woodland rain | B |
Gather the sparkles from the sycamore | F |
To set within each core | F |
Of crimson roses girdling her hips | G |
Where each bud dreams and drips | G |
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Smoothing her blue black hair where many a tusk | H |
Of iris flashes like the falchions' sheen | I |
Of Faery 'round blue banners of its Queen | I |
Is it a Naiad singing in the dusk | H |
That haunts the spring where all the moss is musk | H |
With footsteps of the flowers on the banks | J |
Or just a wild bird voluble with thanks | J |
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Balm for each blade of grass the Hours prepare | K |
A festival each weed's invited to | L |
Each bee is drunken with the honied air | K |
And all the air is eloquent with blue | L |
The wet hay glitters and the harvester | M |
Tinkles his scythe as twinkling as the dew | L |
That shall not spare | K |
Blossom or brier in its sweeping path | N |
And ere it cut one swath | O |
Rings them they die and tells them to prepare | K |
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What is the spice that haunts each glen and glade | P |
A Dryad's lips who slumbers in the shade | P |
A Faun who lets the heavy ivy wreath | Q |
Slip to his thigh as reaching up he pulls | R |
The chestnut blossoms in whole bosomfuls | R |
A sylvan Spirit whose sweet mouth doth breathe | S |
Her viewless presence near us unafraid | P |
Or troops of ghosts of blooms that whitely wade | P |
The brook whose wisdom knows no other song | T |
Than that the bird sings where it builds beneath | Q |
The wild rose and sits singing all day long | T |
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Oh let me sit with silence for a space | R |
A little while forgetting that fierce part | U |
Of man that struggles in the toiling mart | U |
Where God can look into my heart's own heart | U |
From unsoiled heights made amiable with grace | R |
And where the sermons that the old oaks keep | V |
Can steal into me And what better then | A |
Than turning to the moss a quiet face | R |
To fall asleep a little while to sleep | V |
And dream of wiser worlds and wiser men | A |
Madison Julius Cawein
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