Eidolons Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABA CDCDC EFEFE GCGCG HIHIH JCJCJ CDCDC| The white moth mullein brushed its slim | A |
| Cool faery flowers against his knee | B |
| In places where the way lay dim | A |
| The branches arching suddenly | B |
| Made tomblike mystery for him | A |
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| The wild rose and the elder drenched | C |
| With rain made pale a misty place | D |
| From which as from a ghost he blenched | C |
| He walking with averted face | D |
| And lips in desolation clenched | C |
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| For far within the forest where | E |
| Weird shadows stood like phantom men | F |
| And where the ground hog dug its lair | E |
| The she fox whelped and had her den | F |
| The thing kept calling buried there | E |
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| One dead trunk like a ruined tower | G |
| Dark green with toppling trailers shoved | C |
| Its wild wreck o'er the bush one bower | G |
| Looked like a dead man capped and gloved | C |
| The one who haunted him each hour | G |
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| Now at his side he heard it thin | H |
| As echoes of a thought that speaks | I |
| To conscience Listening with his chin | H |
| Upon his palm against his cheeks | I |
| He felt the moon's white finger win | H |
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| And now the voice was still and lo | J |
| With eyes that stared on naught but night | C |
| He saw what none on earth shall know | J |
| Was it the face that far from sight | C |
| Had lain here buried long ago | J |
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| But men who found him thither led | C |
| By the wild fox within that place | D |
| Read in his stony eyes 'tis said | C |
| The thing he saw there face to face | D |
| The thing that left him staring dead | C |
Madison Julius Cawein
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