On The Jellico-spur Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBDEFDGHHGDGGIJDDJ KGGKCDDCGGGGLMMLNDDN GOOGPGGPGGGGGQRGGSSG GDDGTIITUVVUQUURWUUX YRRYUZA2UUUUUB2UUB2C 2D2E2C2F2G2G2H2I2J2K 2I2UDDUL2M2M2L2GGGGG N2O2GGP2P2GQ2R2R2Q2G UUGGMMGUDDU| TO MY FRIEND JOHN FOX JR | A |
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| You remember the deep mist | B |
| Climbing to the Devil's Den | C |
| Blue beneath us in the glen | C |
| And above us amethyst | B |
| Throbbed and circled and away | D |
| Thro' the wild woods opposite | E |
| Torn and shattered morning lit | F |
| Scurried up a dewy gray | D |
| Vague as in Romance we saw | G |
| From the fog one riven trunk | H |
| Its huge horny talons shrunk | H |
| Thrust a hungry dragon's claw | G |
| And we climbed two hours thro' | D |
| The dawn dripping Jellicoes | G |
| To that wooded rock that shows | G |
| Undulating peaks of blue | I |
| The vast Cumberlands that sleep | J |
| Weighed with soaring forests far | D |
| To the concave welkin's bar | D |
| Leagues on leagues of purple sweep | J |
| Range exalted over range | K |
| Billowed their enormous spines | G |
| And we heard the priestly pines | G |
| Hum the wisdom of their change | K |
| We were sons of Nature then | C |
| She had taken us to her | D |
| Closer drawn by brier and burr | D |
| There on lonely Devil's Den | C |
| We were pupils of her moods | G |
| Taught the beauties of her loins | G |
| In those bloom anointed coignes | G |
| Love in her eternal woods | G |
| How she bore or flower or bud | L |
| Pithed the wiry sapling oak | M |
| In the long vine zeal awoke | M |
| Aye to climb a leafy flood | L |
| Her waste fantasies of birth | N |
| Sponge like exudations fair | D |
| Dainty fungi everywhere | D |
| Bulging from the loamy earth | N |
| Coral vegetable things | G |
| Crystals clamily exhaled | O |
| Bulbous marble ribbed and scaled | O |
| Vip'rous colored then close rings | G |
| Of the Indian Pipe that cleft | P |
| Pink and white the woodland lax | G |
| Blossoms of a natural wax | G |
| The brown mountain fairies left | P |
| We on that parched precipice | G |
| Stretched beneath the chestnuts' burrs | G |
| Breathed the balsam of the firs | G |
| Felt the blue sky like a kiss | G |
| Soft that heaven stainless as | G |
| The grand woodlands lunging on | Q |
| Wound majestic in the sun | R |
| Or as our devotion was | G |
| Freedom sat there cragged we saw | G |
| Freedom whom hoarse forests sang | S |
| Heaven browed her eyes whence sprang | S |
| Audience august with law | G |
| Wildernesses from her hips | G |
| Sprung the giant forests there | D |
| Tossed the cataracts from her hair | D |
| Thunders lightened from her lips | G |
| Oft some scavenger with vane | T |
| Motionless above we knew | I |
| Wheeled thro' altitudes of blue | I |
| By his rapid shadow's stain | T |
| Or some cloud of sunny white | U |
| Puffed a lazy drift of pearl | V |
| Balmy breezes o'er would whirl | V |
| Shot with coruscating light | U |
| So we dreamed an hour upon | Q |
| Those warm rocks dry lichen scabbed | U |
| Lounged beneath long leaves that dabbed | U |
| At us coins of shade and sun | R |
| Then arose and down some gorge | W |
| Made a bowldered torrent broad | U |
| The hurled pathway of our road | U |
| Tumbled down the mountain large | X |
| At that farm house which you know | Y |
| Where old fashioned flowers spun | R |
| Gay rag carpets in the sun | R |
| By green apple boughs built low | Y |
| Rested from our hot descent | U |
| One deep draught of cider cool | Z |
| Unctuous our fierce veins to dull | A2 |
| At old Hix's eloquent | U |
| On Wolf Mountain died the light | U |
| A colossal blossom rayed | U |
| With rent petaled clouds that played | U |
| 'Round a calyxed fury bright | U |
| Down the moist mint scented vale | B2 |
| To the mining camp we turned | U |
| Thro' the twilight faint discerned | U |
| With its crowded cabins pale | B2 |
| Ah those nights We wandered forth | C2 |
| On some shadow haunted path | D2 |
| When the moon was late and rathe | E2 |
| The large stars sowed south and north | C2 |
| Clustered bursting heavens down | F2 |
| And the milky zodiac | G2 |
| Rolled athwart the belted black | G2 |
| Myriad million moted shone | H2 |
| And in dreams we sauntered till | I2 |
| In the valley pale beneath | J2 |
| From a dew drop's vapored breath | K2 |
| To faint ghosts there gathered still | I2 |
| Grave creations weird of mist | U |
| Then we knew the moonrise near | D |
| As with necromance the air | D |
| Pulsed to pearl and amethyst | U |
| Shrilled the insects of the dusk | L2 |
| Grated buzzed and strident sung | M2 |
| Till each leaf seemed tuned and strung | M2 |
| For high Pixy music brusque | L2 |
| Stealing steps and stealthy sighs | G |
| As of near unhallowed things | G |
| Rustled hair or fluttered wings | G |
| Seemed about us then the eyes | G |
| Of plumed phantom warriors | G |
| Burned mesmeric from some bush | N2 |
| Mournful in the goblin hush | O2 |
| Then materialized to stars | G |
| Mantled mists like ambushed braves | G |
| Chiefed by some swart Blackfoot tall | P2 |
| Stole along each forest wall | P2 |
| Phosphorescent moony waves | G |
| Then the moon rose from some cup | Q2 |
| Each hill's bowl magnetic shine | R2 |
| Mist and silence poured like wine | R2 |
| Brimmed a monster goblet up | Q2 |
| Ingot from lost orient mines | G |
| Delved by humpbacked gnomes of Night | U |
| Full her orb loomed nacreous white | U |
| O'er Pine Mountain's druid pines | G |
| As thro' fragmentary fleece | G |
| Her circumference polished broke | M |
| Orey seamed about us woke | M |
| Myths of Italy and Greece | G |
| Then a chanson serenade | U |
| You rich voiced to your guitar | D |
| To our goddess in that star | D |
| Sang Ne Tempo from the glade | U |
Madison Julius Cawein
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