In The South. [serenade.] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB CDCDCC EBEBEBE FGFGFG HIHIHI CJCJCJC| The dim verbena drugs the dusk | A |
| With heavy lemon odors rare | B |
| Wan heliotropes Arabian musk | A |
| Exhale into the dreamy air | B |
| A sad wind with long wooing husk | A |
| Swoons in the roses there | B |
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| The jasmine at thy casement flings | C |
| Star censers oozing rich perfumes | D |
| The clematis long petaled swings | C |
| Deep clusters of dark purple blooms | D |
| With flowers like moons or sylphide wings | C |
| Magnolias light the glooms | C |
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| Awake awake from sleep | E |
| Thy balmy hair | B |
| Unbounden deep on deep | E |
| Than blossoms fair | B |
| Who sweetest fragrance weep | E |
| Will fill the night with prayer | B |
| Awake awake from sleep | E |
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| And dreaming here it seems to me | F |
| Some dryad's bosoms grow confessed | G |
| Nude in the dark magnolia tree | F |
| That rustles with the murmurous West | G |
| Or is it but a dream of thee | F |
| That thy white beauty guessed | G |
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| In southern heavens above are rolled | H |
| A million feverish gems which burst | I |
| From night's deep ebon caskets old | H |
| With inner fires that seem to thirst | I |
| Tall oleanders to their gold | H |
| Drift buds where dews are nursed | I |
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| Unseal unseal thine eyes | C |
| Where long her rod | J |
| Queen Mab sways o'er their skies | C |
| In realms of Nod | J |
| Confessed such majesties | C |
| Will fill the night with God | J |
| Unseal unseal thine eyes | C |
Madison Julius Cawein
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