At The Lane's End Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDF GHGI J GGKKLMINOOPPIIQQCCRR IIIIIIGGIISSIIIIITTU UIIIIIIIIVVIIWWXXIII IIITTIIYZIIA2A2XXGGG J IIIII GB2 GB2G ICICI QGQGQ C2QC2QC2 RQRQR D2E2D2E2D2 F2QF2QF2 ICICI G2QG2QG2 IH2IH2I QQQQQ TCTCT XI2XI2X J2QJ2QJ2 IQIQI IQIQI K2J2K2J2K2 IQIQI

No more to strip the roses fromA
The rose boughs of her porch's placeB
I dreamed last night that I was homeC
Beside a rose her faceB
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I must have smiled in sleep who knowsD
The rose aroma filled the laneE
I saw her white hand's lifted roseD
That called me home againF
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And yet when I awoke so wanG
An old face wet with icy tearsH
Somehow it seems sleep had misdrawnG
A love gone thirty yearsI
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IIJ
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The clouds roll up and the clouds roll downG
Over the roofs of the little townG
Out in the hills where the pike winds byK
Fields of clover and bottoms of ryeK
You will hear no sound but the barking coughL
Of the striped chipmunk where the lane leads offM
You will hear no bird but the sapsuckersI
Far off in the forest that seems to purrN
As the warm wind fondles its top grown hotO
Like the docile back of an ocelotO
You will see no thing but the shine and shadeP
Of briers that climb and of weeds that wadeP
The glittering creeks of the light that fillsI
The dusty road and the red keel hillsI
And all day long in the pennyroy'lQ
The grasshoppers at their anvils toilQ
Thick click of their tireless hammers thrumC
And the wheezy belts of their bellows humC
Tinkers who solder the silence and heatR
To make the loneliness more completeR
Around old rails where the blackberriesI
Are reddening ripe and the bumble beesI
Are a drowsy rustle of Summer's skirtsI
And the bob white's wing is the fan she flirtsI
Under the hill through the iron weedsI
And ox eyed daisies and milkweeds leadsI
The path forgotten of all but oneG
Where elder bushes are sick with sunG
And wild raspberries branch big blue veinsI
O'er the face of the rock where the old spring rainsI
Its sparkling splinters of molten sparS
On the gravel bed where the tadpoles areS
You will find the pales of the fallen fenceI
And the tangled orchard and vineyard denseI
With the weedy neglect of thirty yearsI
The garden there where the soft sky clearsI
Like an old sweet face that has dried its tearsI
The garden plot where the cabbage grewT
And the pompous pumpkin and beans that blewT
Balloons of white by the melon patchU
Maize and tomatoes that seemed to catchU
Oblong amber and agate ballsI
Thrown from the sun in the frosty fallsI
Long rows of currants and gooseberriesI
And the balsam gourd with its honey beesI
And here was a nook for the princess plumesI
The snap dragons and the poppy bloomsI
Mother's sweet williams and pansy flowersI
And the morning glories' bewildered bowersI
Tipping their cornucopias upV
For the humming birds that came to supV
And over it all was the Sabbath peaceI
Of the land whose lap was the love of theseI
And the old log house where my innocence diedW
With my boyhood buried side by sideW
Shall a man with a face as withered and grayX
As the wasp nest stowed in a loft awayX
Where the hornets haunt and the mortar dropsI
From the loosened logs of the clap board topsI
Whom vice has aged as the rotting roomsI
The rain where memories haunt the gloomsI
A hitch in his joints like the rheum that gnatsI
In the rasping hinge of the door that jarsI
A harsh cracked throat like the old stone flueT
Where the swallows build the summer throughT
Shall a man I say with the spider sinsI
That the long years spin in the outs and insI
Of his soul returning to see once moreY
His boyhood's home where his life was poorZ
With toil and tears and their fretfulnessI
But rich with health and the hopes that blessI
The unsoiled wealth of a vigorous youthA2
Shall he not take comfort and know the truthA2
In its threadbare raiment of falsehood YeaX
In his crumbled past he shall kneel and prayX
Like a pilgrim come to the shrine againG
Of the homely saints that shall soothe his painG
And arise and depart made clean from stainG
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Years of care can not eraseI
Visions of the hills and treesI
Closing in the dam and raceI
Not the mile long memoriesI
Of the mill stream's lovely placeI
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How the sunsets used to stainG
Mirror of the water lyingB2
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Under eaves made dark with rainG
Where the red bird westward flyingB2
Lit to try one song againG
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Dingles hills and woods and springsI
Where we came in calm and stormC
Swinging in the grape vine swingsI
Wading where the rocks were warmC
With our fishing nets and stringsI
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Here the road plunged down the hillQ
Under ash and chinquapinG
Where the grasshoppers would drillQ
Ears of silence with their dinG
To the willow girdled millQ
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There the path beyond the fordC2
Takes the woodside just belowQ
Shallows that the lilies swordC2
Where the scarlet blossoms blowQ
Of the trumpet vine and gourdC2
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Summer winds that sink with heatR
On the pelted waters winnowQ
Moony petals that repeatR
Crescents where the startled minnowQ
Beats a glittering retreatR
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Summer winds that bear the scentD2
Of the iron weed and mintE2
Weary with sweet freight and spentD2
On the deeper pools imprintE2
Stumbling steps in many a dentD2
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Summer winds that split the huskF2
Of the peach and nectarineQ
Trail along the amber duskF2
Hazy skirts of gray and greenQ
Spilling balms of dew and muskF2
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Where with balls of bursting juiceI
Summer sees the red wild plumC
Strew the gravel ripened looseI
Autumn hears the pawpaw drumC
Plumpness on the rocks that bruiseI
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There we found the water beechG2
One forgotten August noonQ
With a hornet nest in reachG2
Like a fairyland balloonQ
Full of bustling fairy speechG2
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Some invasion sure it wasI
For we heard the captains scoldH2
Waspish cavalry a buzzI
Troopers uniformed in goldH2
Sable slashed to charge on usI
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Could I find the sedgy angleQ
Where the dragon flies would turnQ
Slender flittings into spangleQ
On the sunlight or would burnQ
Where the berries made a tangleQ
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Sparkling green and brassy blueT
Rendezvousing by the streamC
Bands of elf banditti whoT
Brigands of the bloom and beamC
Drunken were with honey dewT
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Could I find the pond that layX
Where vermilion blossoms showeredI2
Fragrance down the daisied wayX
That the sassafras emboweredI2
With the spice of early MayX
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Could I find it did I seekJ2
The old mill Its weather beatenQ
Wheel and gable by the creekJ2
With its warping roof worm eatenQ
Dusty rafters worn and weakJ2
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Where old shadows haunt old placesI
Loft and hopper stair and binQ
Ghostly with the dust that lacesI
Webs that usher phantoms inQ
Wistful with remembered facesI
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While the frogs' grave litaniesI
Drowse in far off antiphoneQ
Supplicating till the eyesI
Of dead friendships long aloneQ
In the dusky corners riseI
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Moonrays or the splintered slipK2
Of a star within the darklingJ2
Twilight where the fire flies dipK2
As if Night a myriad sparklingJ2
Jewels from her hands let slipK2
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While again some farm boy crossesI
With a corn sack for the mealQ
O'er the creek through ferns and mossesI
Sprinkled by the old mill wheelQ
Where the water drips and tossesI

Madison Julius Cawein



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