Mysteries Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABAAAB CCDCCED FFGFFHG IIBIIIB JJKJJJK LLMLLNMSoft and silken and silvery brown | A |
In shoes of lichen and leafy gown | A |
Little blue butterflies fluttering around her | B |
Deep in the forest afar from town | A |
There where a stream came trickling down | A |
I met with Silence who wove a crown | A |
Of sleep whose mystery bound her | B |
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I gazed in her eyes that were mossy green | C |
As the rain that pools in a hollow between | C |
The twisted roots of a tree that towers | D |
And I saw the things that none has seen | C |
That mean far more than facts may mean | C |
The dreams that are true of an age that has been | E |
That God has thought into flowers | D |
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I gazed on her lips that were dewy gray | F |
As the mist that clings at the close of day | F |
To the wet hillside when the winds cease blowing | G |
And I heard the things that none may say | F |
That are holier far than the prayers we pray | F |
The murmured music God breathes alway | H |
Through the hearts of all things growing | G |
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Soft and subtle and vapory white | I |
In shoes of shadow and gown of light | I |
Crimson poppies asleep around her | B |
Far in the forest beneath a height | I |
I came on Slumber who wove from night | I |
A wreath of silence that darkly bright | I |
With its mystic beauty bound her | B |
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I looked in her face that was pale and still | J |
As the moon that rises above the hill | J |
Where the pines loom sombre as sorrow | K |
And the things that all have known and will | J |
I knew for a moment the myths that fill | J |
And people the past of the soul and thrill | J |
Its hope with a far to morrow | K |
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I heard her voice that was strange with pain | L |
As a wind that whispers of wreck and rain | L |
To the leaves of the autumn rustling lonely | M |
And I felt the things that are felt in vain | L |
By all the longings that haunt the brain | L |
Of man that come and depart again | N |
And are part of his dreamings only | M |
Madison Julius Cawein
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