By Wold And Wood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEFGGHHIIJJKLMM NNOOPPFFQQRRSSTT A UUFFSSVVWWSSFFSSMMFF XXSSSSFFSSBBSSFFPPI | A |
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Green watery jets of light let through | B |
The rippling foliage drenched with dew | B |
Bland glow worm glamours warm and dim | C |
Above the mystic vistas swim | C |
Where 'round the fountain's oozy urn | D |
The limp loose fronds of limber fern | D |
Wave dusky tresses thin and wet | E |
Blue filleted with violet | F |
O'er roots that writhe in snaky knots | G |
The moss in amber cushions clots | G |
From wattled walls of brier and brush | H |
The elder's misty attars gush | H |
And Argus eyed by knoll and bank | I |
The affluent wild rose flowers rank | I |
And stol'n in shadowy retreats | J |
In black rich soil your vision greets | J |
The colder undergrowths of woods | K |
Damp lushy leaved whose gloomier moods | L |
Turn all the life beneath to death | M |
And rottenness for their own breath | M |
May apples waxen stemmed and large | N |
With their bloom screening breadths of targe | N |
Wake robins dark green leaved their stems | O |
Tipped with green oval clumps of gems | O |
As if some woodland Bacchus there | P |
A braiding of his yellow hair | P |
With ivy tod had idly tost | F |
His thyrsus there and so had lost | F |
Low blood root with its pallid bloom | Q |
The red life of its mother's womb | Q |
Through all its ardent pulses fine | R |
Beating in scarlet veins of wine | R |
And where the knotty eyes of trees | S |
Stare wide like Fauns' at Dryades | S |
That lave smooth limbs in founts of spar | T |
Shines many a wild flower's tender star | T |
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II | A |
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The scummy pond sleeps lazily | U |
Clad thick with lilies and the bee | U |
Reels boisterous as a Bassarid | F |
Above the bloated green frog hid | F |
In lush wan calamus and grass | S |
Beside the water's stagnant glass | S |
The piebald dragon fly like one | V |
A weary of the world and sun | V |
Comes blindly blundering along | W |
A pedagogue gaunt lean and long | W |
Large headed naturalist with wise | S |
Great glaring goggles on his eyes | S |
And dry and hot the fragrant mint | F |
Pours grateful odors without stint | F |
From cool clay banks of cressy streams | S |
Rare as the musks of rich hareems | S |
And hot as some sultana's breath | M |
With turbulent passions or with death | M |
A haze of floating saffron sound | F |
Of shy crisp creepings o'er the ground | F |
The dip and stir of twig and leaf | X |
Tempestuous gusts of spices brief | X |
From elder bosks and sassafras | S |
Wind cuffs that dodge the laughing grass | S |
Sharp sudden songs and whisperings | S |
That hint at untold hidden things | S |
Pan and Sylvanus that of old | F |
Kept sacred each wild wood and wold | F |
A wily light beneath the trees | S |
Quivers and dusks with ev'ry breeze | S |
Mayhap some Hamadryad who | B |
Culling her morning meal of dew | B |
From frail accustomed cups of flowers | S |
Some Satyr watching through the bowers | S |
Had when his goat hoof snapped and pressed | F |
A brittle branch shrunk back distressed | F |
Startled her wild tumultuous hair | P |
Bathing her limbs one instant there | P |
Madison Julius Cawein
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