Artemis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEFG DHIDJKLMDNOP DDQRDGODS TUVWDXFDYZIA2 DAB2UDC2DOA2OA2DUD2D VDE2F2DKDADKAODDDDG2 H2| Oft of the hiding Oread wast thou seen | A |
| At earliest morn a tall imperial shape | B |
| High buskined dew dripped and on close chaste curls | C |
| Long blackness of thick hair the tipsy drops | D |
| Caught from the dipping sprays of under bosks | D |
| Kissed of thy cheek and of thy shoulder brushed | E |
| Thy rosy cheek as haughty Hera's fair | F |
| Thy snow soft shoulder luminous as light | G |
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| Oft did the shaggy hills and solitudes | D |
| Of Arethusa shout and ring and reel | H |
| Reverberate and echo merrily | I |
| With the mad chiding of thy merry hounds | D |
| Big mouthed and musical that on the stag | J |
| Or bristling wild boar furious grew in quest | K |
| And thou as keen fleet footed and clean limbed | L |
| Thou thou O goddess with thy quivered crew | M |
| Most loveliest maids and fit to wed with gods | D |
| Rushed swinging on the wind free limbs and lithe | N |
| Long as thy radiant locks flung free to blow | O |
| And lighten in the wine sharp air of morn | P |
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| Ai me their throats their lusty dimpled throats | D |
| That made the hills sing and the wood ways dance | D |
| As if to Orphic strains and gave them life | Q |
| Ai me their bosoms' deepness and the soft | R |
| Sweet happy beauty of their delicate limbs | D |
| That stormed the forest vacancies with light | G |
| Swift daylight of their splendor and made blow | O |
| Within the glad sonorous solitudes | D |
| Old germs of flowerets a century cold | S |
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| The woodland Naiad whispered by her rock | T |
| The Hamadryad limpid eyed and wild | U |
| Expectant rustled by her usual oak | V |
| And laughed in wonder and mad Pan himself | W |
| Reeled piping fiercely down the dingled deeps | D |
| With rollicking eye that rolled a brutish lust | X |
| And did the unwed maiden musing where | F |
| Her father's well beyond the god graced hills | D |
| Bubbled and babbled hear the full high cry | Y |
| Of the chaste huntress while her dripping jar | Z |
| Unheeded brimmed vowed with her chastity | I |
| And shorn gold hair to veil her virgin feet | A2 |
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| But ah not when the saucy daylight swims | D |
| Filling the forests with a glamorous green | A |
| Let me behold thee goddess but when dim | B2 |
| The slow night settles on the haunted wild | U |
| And walks in sober sark and heatful stars | D |
| Shine out intensely and the echoy waste | C2 |
| Far off far off in shudders palpitates | D |
| Unto the Limnad's song unmerciful | O |
| Unmerciful and mad and bitter sweet | A2 |
| Then come in all thy godhead beautiful | O |
| Thou beautiful and gentle as thou cam'st | A2 |
| To lorn Endymion who in Lemnos once | D |
| Lone in the wizard magic of the wild | U |
| Wandered a gentle boy unfriended sad | D2 |
| It grew far off adown the stirring trees | D |
| Thy silent beauty blossoming flowerlike | V |
| Between the tree trunks and the lacing limbs | D |
| Bright in the leaves that kissed for very joy | E2 |
| And drunkenness of glory thus revealed | F2 |
| He saw it all the naked brow and limbs | D |
| The polished silver of thy glossy breast | K |
| Alone uncompanied of handmaidens | D |
| Like some full splendid fruit Hesperian | A |
| Not e'en for deities thy sweet far voice | D |
| Came tinkling on his wistful ear and lisped | K |
| Like leaves that cling and slip to cling again | A |
| And on such perilous beauty that must kill | O |
| The poisonous favor of thy godliness | D |
| Feasting his every sense through eyes and ears | D |
| His soul exalted waxed and amorous | D |
| Like the high gods who quaff deep golden bowls | D |
| Of rosy nectar with immortal love | G2 |
| And what remained ah what remained but death | H2 |
Madison Julius Cawein
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