Bare Boughs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH BIAI JKJK LMLM| O heart that beat the bird's blithe blood | A |
| The blithe bird's strain and understood | B |
| The song it sang to leaf and bud | A |
| What dost thou in the wood | B |
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| O soul that kept the brook's glad flow | C |
| The glad brook's word to sun and moon | D |
| What dost thou here where song lies low | C |
| And dead the dreams of June | D |
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| Where once was heard a voice of song | E |
| The hautboys of the mad winds sing | F |
| Where once a music flowed along | E |
| The rain's wild bugle's ring | F |
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| The weedy water frets and ails | G |
| And moans in many a sunless fall | H |
| And o'er the melancholy trails | G |
| The black crow's eldritch call | H |
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| Unhappy brook O withered wood | B |
| O days whom Death makes comrades of | I |
| Where are the birds that thrilled the blood | A |
| When Life struck hands with Love | I |
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| A song one soared against the blue | J |
| A song one silvered in the leaves | K |
| A song one blew where orchards grew | J |
| Gold appled to the eaves | K |
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| The birds are flown the flowers dead | L |
| And sky and earth are bleak and gray | M |
| Where Joy once went all light of tread | L |
| Grief haunts the leaf wild way | M |
Madison Julius Cawein
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