In Solitary Places Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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The hurl and hurry of the winds of March	A
That tore the ash and bowed the pine and larch	A
Are past and done with winds that trampled through	B
The forests with enormous scythe like sweep	C
And from the darkening deep	C
The battlements of heaven thunder blue	B
Rumbled the arch	A
The rocking arch of all the booming oaks	D
With stormy chariot spokes	D
Chariots from which wild bugle blasts they blew	B
Their warrior challenge Now the wind flower sweet	E
Misses the fury of their ruining feet	E
The trumpet thunder of resistless flight	F
Crashing and vast obliterating light	F
Sweeping the skeleton cohorts down	G
Of last year's leaves and overhead	H
Hurrying the giant foliage of night	F
Gaunt clouds that streamed with tempest Now each crown	G
Of woods that stooped to clamor of their tread	H
The frenzy of their passage stoops no more	I
Hearing no more their clarion command	J
Their chariot hurl and the wild whip in hand	J
No more no more	I
The forests rock and roar	I
And tumult with their shoutings Hushed and still	K
Is the green gleaming and the sunlit hill	K
Along whose sides	L
Flushing the dewy moss and rainy grass	M
Beneath the topaz tinted sassafras	M
As aromatic as some orient wine	N
The violet fire of the bluet glides	L
The amaranthine flame	O
Glints of the bluebell and the celandine	N
Line upon lovely line	N
Deliberate goldens into birth	P
And ruby and rose the moccasin flower hides	L
Innumerable blooms with which she writes her name	O
April upon the page	Q
The winter withered parchment of old Earth	P
Her fragrant autograph that gives it worth	P
And loveliness that takes away its age	Q
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II	R
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Here where the woods are wet	S
The blossoms of the dog's tooth violet	T
Seem meteors in a miniature firmament	T
Of wildflowers where with rainy sound and scent	T
Of breeze and blossom soft the April went	T
Their tongue like leaves of umber mottled green	U
So thickly seen	U
Seem dropping words of gold	T
The visible syllables of a magic old	T
Beside them near the wahoo bush and haw	V
Blooms the hepatica	W
Its slender flowers upon swaying stems	X
Lifting pale solitary blooms	Y
Starry and twilight colored like frail gems	X
That star the diadems	X
Of sylvan spirits piercing pale the glooms	X
Or like the wands the torches of the fays	X
That light lone woodland ways	X
With slim uncertain rays	X
The faery people whom no eye may see	X
Busy so legend says	X
With budding bough and leafing tree	X
The blossom's heart o' honey and honey sack o' the bee	X
And all dim thoughts and dreams	X
That take the form of flowers as it seems	X
And haunt the banks of greenwood streams	X
Showing in every line and curve	Z
Commensurate with our love and intimacy	X
A smiling confidence or sweet reserve	Z
There at that leafy turn	A2
Of trailered rocks rise fronds of hart's tongue fern	A2
Fronds that my fancy names	X
Uncoiling flames	X
Of feathering emerald and gold	T
That kindled in the musky mould	T
Now stealthily as the morn unfold	T
Their cool green fires that burn	A2
Uneagerly and spread around	T
An elfin light above the ground	T
Like that green glow	B2
A spirit lamped with crystal makes below	B2
In dripping caves of labyrinthine moss	X
And in the underwoods around them toss	X
The white hearts with their penciled leaves	X
That 'mid the shifting gleams and glooms	X
The interchanging shine and shade	T
Seem some vague garment made	T
By unseen hands that weave that none perceives	X
Pale hands that work invisible looms	X
Now dropping shreds of light	T
Now shadow shreds that interbraid	T
And form faint colors mixed with frail perfumes	X
Or are they fragments left in flight	T
These flowers that scatter every glade	T
With windy beckoning white	T
And breezy blowing blue	B
Of her wild gown that shone upon my sight	T
A moment in the woods I wandered through	B
April's whom still I follow	B2
Whom still my dreams pursue	B
Who leads me on by many a tangled clue	B
Of loveliness until in some green hollow	B2
Born of her fragrance and her melody	T
But lovelier than herself and happier too	B
Cradled in blossoms of the dogwood tree	T
My soul shall see	T
White as a sunbeam in the heart of day	T
The infant May	T
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III	R
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Up up my Heart and forth where none perceives	X
'T was this that that sweet lay meant	T
You heard in dreams	X
Come let us take rich payment	T
For every care that grieves	X
From Nature's prodigal purse 'T was this that May meant	T
By sending forth that wind which 'round our eaves	X
Whispered all night Or was 't the Spirit who weaves	X
From gold and glaucous green of early leaves	X
Spring's radiant raiment	T
Up up my Heart and forth where none perceives	X
Come let us forth my Heart where none divines	X
Into far woodland places	X
Where we may meet the fair assembled races	X
Beneath the guardian pines	X
Of God's first flowers poppy celandines	X
And wake robins and bugled columbines	X
With which her hair her heavenly hair she twines	X
And loops and laces	X
Come let us forth my Heart where none divines	X
Forth forth my Heart and let us find our dreams	X
There where they haunt each hollow	B2
Dreams luring us with Oread feet to follow	B2
With flying feet of beams	X
Fleeter and lighter than the soaring swallow	B2
Dreams holding us with Dryad glooms and gleams	X
With Naiad looks far stiller than still streams	X
That have beheld and still reflect it seems	X
The God Apollo	B2
Forth forth my Heart and let us find our dreams	X
Out out my Heart the world is white with spring	W
Long have our dreams been pleaders	X
Now let them be our firm but gentle leaders	X
Come let us forth and sing	W
Among the amber emerald tufted cedars	X
And balm o' Gileads cottonwoods a swing	W
Like giant censers that from leaf cusps fling	W
Balsams of gummy gold bewildering	W
The winds their feeders	X
Out out my Heart the world is white with spring	W
Up up my Heart and all thy hope put on	C2
Array thyself in splendor	D2
Like some bright dragonfly some May fly slender	D2
The irised lamels don	C2
Of thy new armor and where burns the centre	D2
Refulgent of the widening rose of dawn	E2
Spread thy wild wings and ere the hour be gone	E2
Bright as a blast from some bold clarion	F2
Thy Dream world enter	D2
Up up my heart and all thy hope put on	C2
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IV	Z
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And then I heard it singing	W
The wind that kissed my hair	G2
A song of wild expression	F2
A song that called in session	F2
The wildflowers there up springing	W
The wildflowers lightly flinging	W
Their tresses to the air	G2
And first the bloodroot blooms of March	A
In troops arose each with its torch	H2
Of hollow snow within which bright	T
The calyx grottoed golden light	T
Hepatica and bluet	T
And gold corydalis	X
Rose swaying to the aria	I2
While phlox and dim dentaria	I2
In rapture ere they knew it	T
Oped nodding lightly to it	T
Faint as a first star is	X
And then a music to the ear	I2
Inaudible I seemed to hear	I2
A symphony that seemed to rise	X
And speak in colors to the eyes	X
I saw the Jacob's Ladder	I2
Ring violet peal on peal	J2
Of perfume azure swinging	W
The bluebell slimly ringing	W
Its purple chimes and gladder	I2
Green note on note the madder	I2
Bells of the Solomon's seal	J2
Now far away now near now lost	T
I saw their fragrant music tossed	T
Mixed dimly with white interludes	X
Of trilliums starring cool the woods	X
Then choral solitary	I2
I saw the celandine	N
Smite bright its golden cymbals	X
The starwort shake its timbrels	X
The whiteheart's horns of Faery	I2
With many a flourish airy	I2
Strike silvery into line	N
And straight my soul they seemed to draw	I2
By chords of loveliness and awe	K2
Into a Faery World afar	I2
Where all man's dreams and longings are	I2
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V	I2
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Then the face of a spirit looked down at me	I2
Out of the deeps of the opal morn	L2
Its eyes were blue as a sunlit sea	I2
And young with the joy of a star that has just been born	L2
And I seemed to hear with my soul the rose of its cool mouth say	X
'Long I lay long I lay	X
Low on the Hills of the Break of Day	X
Where ever the light is green and gray	X
And the gleam of the moon is a silvery spray	X
And the stars are glimmering bubbles	X
Now from the Hills of the Break of Day	X
I come I come on a rainbow ray	X
To laugh and sparkle to leap and play	X
And blow from the face of the world away	X
Like mists its cares and troubles '	-
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VI	Z
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And now that the dawn is everywhere	I2
Let us take this road through this wild green place	X
Where the rattlesnake weed shows its yellow face	X
And the lichens cover the rocks with lace	X
Where tannin touched is the wild free air	I2
Let us take this path through the oaks where thin	M2
The low leaves whisper 'The day is fair '	-
And waters murmur 'Come in come in	M2
Where the wind of our foam can play with your hair	I2
And blow away care '	-
Berry blossoms that seem to flow	B2
As the winds blow	B2
Blackberry blossoms swing and sway	X
To and fro	B2
Along our way	X
Like ocean spray on a breezy day	X
Over the green of the grass as foam on the green of a bay	X
When the world is white and green with the white and the green of May	X
And here the bluets blooming	W
Make little eyes at you	B
O'er which the bees go booming	W
Drunk with the honey dew	B
O slender Quaker ladies	X
O star bright Quaker ladies	X
With eyes of heavenly blue	B
With eyes of azure hue	B
Who where the mossy shade is	X
Hold quiet Quaker meeting	W
Are these your serenaders	X
Your gold hipped serenaders	X
Who humming love songs true	B
And to your eyes repeating	W
Soft ballads stop to woo	B
Then change to ambuscaders	X
To gold galloon d raiders	X
And rob the hearts of you	B
The golden hearts of you	B
And here the bells of the huckleberries toss so it seems in time	N2
Delicate tenderly white clumped by the wildwood way	X
Swinging it seems inaudible peals of a dew clustered rhyme	N2
Visible music dropped from the virginal lips of the May	X
Crystally dropped so it seems blossoming bar upon bar	I2
Pendent pensively pale star upon hollowed star	I2
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VII	Z
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The dewberries are blooming now	O2
The days are long the nights are short	T
Each dogwood and each black haw bough	O2
Is bleached with bloom and seems a part	T
Reflected palely on her brow	O2
Of dreams that haunt the Year's young heart	T
But this will pass and instantly	I2
The world forget the spring that was	X
And underneath the wild plum tree	I2
'Mid hornet hum and wild bee's buzz	X
Summer in dreamy reverie	I2
Will sit all warm and amorous	X
Summer with drowsy eyes and hair	I2
Who walks the orchard aisles between	U
Whose hot touch tans the freckled pear	I2
And crimsons peach and nectarine	U
And in the vineyard everywhere	I2
Bubbles with blue the grape's ripe green	U
Where now the briers blossoming are	I2
Soon will the berries darkly glow	B2
Then summer pass and star on star	I2
Where now the grass is strewn below	B2
With blossoms soon both near and far	I2
Will lie th' obliterating snow	B2
The star flower now that discs with gold	T
The woodland moss the forest grass	X
Already in a day is old	T
Already doth its beauty pass	X
Soon undistinguished with the mould	T
'T will mingle and will mix alas	X
The bluet too that spreads its skies	X
Diminutive heavens at our feet	T
And crowfoot bloom that with orbed eyes	X
Of amber now our eyes doth greet	T
Shall fade and pass and none surmise	X
How once they made the Maytime sweet	T
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VIII	Z
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But still the crowfoot trails its gold	T
Along the edges of the oak wood old	T
And still where spreads the water white are seen	U
The lilies islanded between	U
The pads 'round archipelagoes of green	U
The jade dark pads that pave	Z
The water's wrinkled wave	Z
In which the warbler and the sparrow lave	Z
Their fluttered breasts and wings	X
Preening their backs with many twitterings	X
With necks the moisture streaks	X
Then dipping deep their beaks	X
To which some bead of liquid coolness clings	X
As bending back their mellow throats	X
They let the freshness trickle into notes	X
And now you hear	I2
The red capped woodpecker rap close and clear	I2
And now that acrobat	T
The yellow breasted chat	T
Chuckles his grotesque music from	P2
Some tree that he hath clomb	P2
And now and now	U
Upon a locust bough	U
Hark how the honey throated thrush	Q2
Scatters the forest's emerald hush	Q2
With notes of golden harmony	U
Taking the woods with witchery	I2
Or is 't some spirit none may see	U
Hid in the top of yonder tree	U
Who in his house of leaves of haunted green	U
Keeps trying silver sweet his sunbeam flute serene	U
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IX	U
	-
Again the spirit looked down at me	U
Out of the sunset's ruin of gold	T
Its eyes were dark as a moonless sea	U
And grave with the grief of a star that with sorrow is old	T
And I seemed to hear with my soul the flame of its sad mouth sigh	Z
'Now good by now good by	Z
Down to the Caves of the Night go I	Z
Where a shadowy couch of the purple sky	Z
That the moon and the starlight curtain high	Z
Is spread for my joy and sorrow	I2
Down to the Caves of the Night go I	Z
Where side by side in mystery	U
With all the Yesterdays I'll lie	Z
And where from my body before I die	Z
Will be born the young To morrow '	-
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X	U
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And now that the dusk draws down you see	U
Tipped by the weight of a passing bee	U
The milkwort's spike of blue	B
Of lavender hue	B
Nod like a goblin night cap slim sedate	T
That night shall tassel with the dew	B
Beneath its canopy of flowering rue	B
And now as twilight's purple state	T
Deepens the oaks' dark vistas through	B
The owlet's cry of'Who oh who	B
Who walks so late '	-
Drifts like a challenge down to you	B
Or there on the twig of the oak tree tall	R2
The gray green egg in the gray green gall	R2
You too might hear if you too would try	Z
Might hear it open all tinily	R2
Split and the little round worm and white	T
That grows to a gnat in a summer night	T
Uncurl in its nest as it dreams of flight	T
In the heart of the weed that grows near by	Z
The little gray worm that becomes a fly	Z
A green wood fly a rainbowed fly	Z
You too might hear if you too would try	Z
As a leaf bud pushes from forth a tree	U
Minute of movement steadily	U
As it feels a yearning for wings begin	U
Under the milk of its larval skin	U
The silent pressure of wings within	U
The west grows ashen the woods grow berylwan	U
The redbird lifts its plaintive vesper song	W
Where faint a fox or rabbit steals along	W
And in some vine roofed hollow far withdrawn	U
The creek frog sounds his deeply guttural gong	W
As dusk comes on	U
The water's gnarl d dwarf or gnome	P2
Seated upon his temple's oozy dome	P2
Calling the faithful unto prayer	I2
Muezzin like the worshippers of the moon	U
The insect folk of earth and air	I2
That join him in his twilight tune	U
Along the path where the lizard hides	U
An instant shadow the spider glides	U
The hairy spider that haunts the way	X
Crouching black by its earth bored hole	R2
An insect ogre that lairs with the mole	R2
Hungry seeking its insect prey	X
Fast to follow and swift to slay	X
And over your hands and over your face	U
The cobweb brushes its phantom lace	U
And now from many a stealthy place	U
Woolly winged and gossamer gray	X
The woodland moths come fluttering	W
Marked and mottled with lichen hues	U
Seal soft umbers and downy blues	U
Dark as the bark to which they cling	W
Now in the hollow of a hill	R2
Like a glow worm held in a giant hand	T
Under the sunset's last red band	T
And one star hued like a daffodil	R2
The windowed lamp of a cabin glows	U
The charcoal burner's whose hut is poor	I2
But ever open beside whose door	I2
An oak grows gnarled and a pine stands slim	P2
Clean of heart and of feature grim	P2
Here he houses where no one knows	U
His only neighbors the cawing crows	U
That make a roost of the pine's top limb	P2
His only friend the fiddle he bows	U
As he sits at his door in the eve's repose	U
Making it chuckle and sing and speak	W
Lovingly pressed to his swarthy cheek	W
And over many a root through ferns and weeds	U
Past lonely places where the raccoon breeds	U
By many a rock and water lying dim	P2
Roofed with the brier and the bramble rose	U
Under a star and the new moon's rim	P2
Downward the wood way leads to him	P2
Down where the lone lamp gleams and glows	U
A pencil slim	P2
Of marigold light'under leaf and limb	P2
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XI	U
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Ere that small sisterhood of misty stars	U
The Pleiades consents to grace the sky	Z
While yet through sunset's tiger tawny bars	U
The evening star shines downward like an eye	Z
A torch Enchantment in her topaz tower	I2
Of twilight kindles at the Day's last hour	I2
Listen and you may hear now low now high	Z
A voice a spirit dreamier than a flower	I2
There is a fellowship so still and sweet	T
A brotherhood that speaks unwordable	R2
In every tree in every flower you meet	T
The soul is fain to sit beneath its spell	R2
And heart admitted to their presence there	I2
Those intimacies of the earth and air	I2
It shall hear words too wonderful to tell	R2
Too deep to interpret of unspoken prayer	I2
And you may see the things no eyes have seen	U
And hear the things no ears have ever heard	T
The Murmur of the Woods in gray and green	U
Will lean to you its soul a whispered word	T
Or by your side in hushed and solemn wise	U
The Silence sit and clothed in glimmering dyes	U
Of pearl and purple herding bee and bird	T
The Dusk steal by you with her shadowy eyes	U
Then through the Ugliness that toils in night	T
Uncouth obscure that hates the glare of day	X
The things that pierce the earth and know no light	T
And hide themselves in clamminess and clay	X
The dumb ungainly things that make a home	P2
Of mud and mire they hill and honeycomb	P2
Through these perhaps in some mysterious way	X
Beauty may speak fairer than wind blown foam	P2
Not as it speaks an eagle message drawn	U
From starry vastness of night's labyrinths	U
Not uttering itself from out the dawn	U
In egret hues nor from the cloud built plinths	U
Of sunset's splendor speaking burningly	X
Unto the spirit nor all flowery	U
From cygnet colored cymes of hyacinths	U
But from the things that type humility	U
From things despised even from the crawfish there	I2
Hollowing its house of ooze a wet vague sound	T
Of sleepy slime or from the mole whose lair	I2
Blind tunnelled corridores the earth around	T
Beauty may draw her truths as draws its wings	U
The butterfly from the dull worm that clings	U
Cocoon and chrysalis and from the ground	T
Address the soul through even senseless things	U
For oft my soul hath heard the trees' huge roots	U
Fumble the darkness clutching at the soil	X
Hath heard the green beaks of th' imprisoned shoots	U
Peck at the boughs from which the leaves uncoil	X
Hath heard the buried germ soft split its pod	T
Groping its blind way up to light and God	T
The mushroom laboring with gnome like toil	X
Heave slow its white orb through the encircling sod	T
The winds and waters stars and streams and flowers	U
The earth and rocks each moss tuft and each fern	U
The very lichens speak This world of ours	U
Is eloquent with things that bid us learn	U
To pierce appearances and so to mark	W
Within the stone and underneath the bark	W
Heard through some inward sense the dreams that turn	U
Outward to light and beauty from the dark	W
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XII	U
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I stood alone in a mountain place	U
And it came to pass as I gazed on space	U
That I met with Mystery face to face	U
Within her eyes my wondering soul beheld	T
The eons past the eons yet to come	P2
At cosmic labor and the stars that swelled	T
Fiery or nebulous from the darkness dumb	P2
In each appointed place and period	T
I saw were words whose hieroglyphic sum	P2
Blazoned one word the mystic name of God	T
I walked alone 'mid the forest's maze	U
And it came to pass as I went my ways	U
That I met with Beauty face to face	U
Within her eyes my worshipping spirit saw	U
The moments busy with the dreams whence spring	W
Earth's loveliness and all fair things that awe	K2
Man's soul with their perfection everything	W
That buds and bourgeons blossoming above	Z
I saw were letters of enduring Law	U
That bloomed one word the beautiful name of Love	Z

Madison Julius Cawein

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