Catkins Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCCAD E AAFFFAA E GGHHIIIJJ K LLLLLLMMNNAAA K OPPOAAQQQKKKKKKRRSSS KPPKKTTKK K KKJJKKOKORR K LLLIIUUKKKKKKUUIMisty are the far off hills | A |
And misty are the near | B |
Purple hazes dimly lie | C |
Veiling hill and field and sky | C |
Marshes where the hylas cry | C |
Like a myriad bills | A |
Piping 'Spring is here ' | D |
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II | E |
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A redbird flits | A |
Then sings and sits | A |
And calls to his mate | F |
'She is late she is late | F |
How long how long must the woodland wait | F |
For its emerald plumes | A |
And its jewelled blooms | A |
She is late she is late ' | - |
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III | E |
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Along the stream | G |
A cloudy gleam | G |
The pussy willows tufted white | H |
Make of each tree a mighty light | H |
Pearl and silver and glimmering gray | I |
They tassel the boughs of the willow way | I |
And as they swing they seem to say | I |
With mouths of bloom | J |
And warm perfume | J |
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IV | K |
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'Awake awake | L |
For young Spring's sake | L |
O little brown bees in hive and brake | L |
Awake awake | L |
For sweet Spring's sake | L |
O butterflies whose wild wings ache | L |
With colors rare | M |
As flowers wear | M |
And hither hither | N |
Before we wither | N |
Oh come to us | A |
All amorous | A |
With honey for your mouths to buss | A |
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V | K |
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'Hearken hearken | O |
Last night we heard | P |
A wondrous word | P |
When dusk did darken | O |
The rain and the wind sat in these boughs | A |
As in a great and shadowy house | A |
At first we deemed | Q |
We only dreamed | Q |
And then it seemed | Q |
We heard them whisper of things to be | K |
The wind and the rain in the willow tree | K |
A sweet delicious conspiracy | K |
To take the world with witchery | K |
They talked of the fairy brotherhoods | K |
Of blooms and blossoms and leaves and buds | K |
That ambushed under the winter mold | R |
And under the bark of the forest old | R |
And they took our breath | S |
With the shibboleth | S |
The secret word that casts off death | S |
That word of life no man may guess | K |
That wondrous word | P |
Which we then heard | P |
That bids life rise | K |
Beneath the skies | K |
Rise up and fill | T |
Far wood and hill | T |
With myriad hosts of loveliness | K |
Invading beauty that love shall bless | K |
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VI | K |
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'Then in our ears | K |
Our woolly ears | K |
Our little ears of willow bloom | J |
Like wild perfume | J |
We seemed to hear dim woodland cheers | K |
Of hosts of flowers | K |
That soon would run | O |
Through fields and bowers | K |
And to the sun | O |
Lift high their banners of blue and gold | R |
And storm the ways of the woodland old | R |
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VII | K |
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'Awake awake | L |
For young Spring's sake | L |
O hylas sleeping in marsh and lake | L |
Tune up your pipes and play play play | I |
Tune tune your reeds in ooze and clay | I |
And pipe and sing | U |
Till everything | U |
Knows gladly knows | K |
Sowing the rose | K |
The lily and rose | K |
With her breast blown bare | K |
And the wind in her hair | K |
And the birds around her everywhere | K |
The Spring the Spring | U |
The young witch Spring | U |
With lilt and laughter and rain and ray | I |
Comes swiftly wildly up this way ' | - |
Madison Julius Cawein
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