O Maytime Woods! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCADEFGHBIABJBK BBBBB BBBBB LMLML BCBCB| From the idyll 'Wild Thorn and Lily' | A |
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| O Maytime woods O Maytime lanes and hours | B |
| And stars that knew how often there at night | C |
| Beside the path where woodbine odors blew | A |
| Between the drowsy eyelids of the dusk | D |
| When like a great white pearly moth the moon | E |
| Hung silvering long windows of your room | F |
| I stood among the shrubs The dark house slept | G |
| I watched and waited for I know not what | H |
| Some tremor of your gown a velvet leaf's | B |
| Unfolding to caresses of the Spring | I |
| The rustle of your footsteps or the dew | A |
| Syllabling avowal on a tulip's lips | B |
| Of odorous scarlet or the whispered word | J |
| Of something lovelier than new leaf or rose | B |
| The word young lips half murmur in a dream | K |
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| Serene with sleep light visions weigh her eyes | B |
| And underneath her window blooms a quince | B |
| The night is a sultana who doth rise | B |
| In slippered caution to admit a prince | B |
| Love who her eunuchs and her lord defies | B |
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| Are these her dreams or is it that the breeze | B |
| Pelts me with petals of the quince and lifts | B |
| The Balm o' Gilead buds and seems to squeeze | B |
| Aroma on aroma through sweet rifts | B |
| Of Eden dripping through the rainy trees | B |
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| Along the path the buckeye trees begin | L |
| To heap their hills of blossoms Oh that they | M |
| Were Romeo ladders whereby I might win | L |
| Her chamber's sanctity where dreams must pray | M |
| About her soul That I might enter in | L |
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| A dream and see the balsam scent erase | B |
| Its dim intrusion and the starry night | C |
| Conclude majestic pomp the virgin grace | B |
| Of every bud abashed before the white | C |
| Pure passion flower of her sleeping face | B |
Madison Julius Cawein
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