Poet Madison Julius Cawein

Madison Julius Cawein

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An Idyll Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFGCCHHIJKK LLLLMMLLLNOOPPLLPPLL

He was a boy sun burned and brownA
And she a girl from a neighboring townA
Dark were her eyes and dark her hairB
And her cheeks as red as the ripe peach thereB
Dainty and sweet with a far awayC
Look in her eyes like the skies of MayC
And it came to pass one afternoonD
She walked in the fields and the month was JuneD
In the hay heaped fields and the meadowlandE
With trees and hills on either handE
And the lad who worked on her father's farmF
Had laid him down all tired and warmG
He had been toiling day after dayC
Mowing and raking and hilling the hayC
And now at last with his work well doneH
He slept by a stack away from the sunH
And she who came with her young head fullI
Of thoughts that never are learned in schoolJ
Young dreams and fancies no girl knows ofK
Unless she is far on the road to loveK
When she saw him there where he lay and sleptL
A little nearer she cautiously steptL
Then stood big eyed and looked aroundL
As if afraid of the one she'd foundL
Of him she knew not who seemed to takeM
Her heart in a hold she could not breakM
He looked so tired and young and hotL
That an impulse swept her she scarce knew whatL
Primitive wild that would not waitL
That cried in her blood 'There lies your mate 'N
And all was still save the cricket's shrillO
And the breeze that blew from the wooded hillO
And so she stood with a foot back drawnP
Like a Nymph that comes on a sleeping FaunP
Then stooped and kissed him and turned and fledL
Sobbing her heart of itself adreadL
But he who lay in the hay slept onP
And never knew what had come and goneP
The love that had bent to his life and kissedL
That something called fate which each has missedL

Madison Julius Cawein



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