Genius Loci Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDEFGEF BHBHIJKBBKBB LJLJMMNJONJO IBIBPPIQRJRR| What wood god on this water's mossy curb | A |
| Lost in reflections of earth's loveliness | B |
| Did I just now unconsciously disturb | A |
| I who haphazard wandering at a guess | B |
| Came on this spot wherein with gold and flame | C |
| Of buds and blooms the season writes its name | C |
| Ah me could I have seen him ere alarm | D |
| Of my approach aroused him from his calm | E |
| As he part Hamadryad and mayhap | F |
| Part Faun lay here who left the shadow warm | G |
| As wildwood rose and filled the air with balm | E |
| Of his sweet breath as with ethereal sap | F |
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| Does not the moss retain some vague impress | B |
| Green dented in of where he lay or trod | H |
| Do not the flow'rs so reticent confess | B |
| With conscious looks the contact of a god | H |
| Does not the very water garrulously | I |
| Boast the indulgence of a deity | J |
| And hark in burly beech and sycamore | K |
| How all the birds proclaim it and the leaves | B |
| Rejoice with clappings of their myriad hands | B |
| And shall not I believe too and adore | K |
| With such wide proof Yea though my soul perceives | B |
| No evident presence still it understands | B |
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| And for a while it moves me to lie down | L |
| Here on the spot his god head sanctified | J |
| Mayhap some dream he dreamed may lingert brown | L |
| And young as joy around the forestside | J |
| Some dream within whose heart lives no disdain | M |
| For such as I whose love is sweet and sane | M |
| That may repeat so none but I may hear | N |
| As one might tell a pearl strung rosary | J |
| Some epic that the trees have learned to croon | O |
| Some lyric whispered in the wild flower's ear | N |
| Whose murmurous lines are sung by bird and bee | J |
| And all the insects of the night and noon | O |
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| For all around me upon field and hill | I |
| Enchantment lies as of mysterious flutes | B |
| As if the music of a god's good will | I |
| Had taken on material attributes | B |
| In blooms like chords and in the water gleam | P |
| That runs its silvery scales from stream to stream | P |
| In sunbeam bars up which the butterfly | I |
| A golden note vibrates then flutters on | Q |
| Inaudible tunes blown on the pipes of Pan | R |
| That have assumed a visible entity | J |
| And drugged the air with beauty so a Faun | R |
| Behold I seem and am no more a man | R |
Madison Julius Cawein
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