One Who Loved Nature Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDE A FGFGHIHI A JKJKLMNM NONOPLPL QRQRSHTH ULULHIHV WNXNYZYA2 FB2FC2 D2OD2OI | A |
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He was not learned in any art | B |
But Nature led him by the hand | C |
And spoke her language to his heart | B |
So he could hear and understand | C |
He loved her simply as a child | D |
And in his love forgot the heat | E |
Of conflict and sat reconciled | D |
In patience of defeat | E |
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II | A |
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Before me now I see him rise | F |
A face that seventy years had snowed | G |
With winter where the kind blue eyes | F |
Like hospitable fires glowed | G |
A small gray man whose heart was large | H |
And big with knowledge learned of need | I |
A heart the hard world made its targe | H |
That never ceased to bleed | I |
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III | A |
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He knew all Nature Yea he knew | J |
What virtue lay within each flower | K |
What tonic in the dawn and dew | J |
And in each root what magic power | K |
What in the wild witch hazel tree | L |
Reversed its time of blossoming | M |
And clothed its branches goldenly | N |
In fall instead of spring | M |
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IV | - |
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He knew what made the firefly glow | N |
And pulse with crystal gold and flame | O |
And whence the bloodroot got its snow | N |
And how the bramble's perfume came | O |
He understood the water's word | P |
And grasshopper's and cricket's chirr | L |
And of the music of each bird | P |
He was interpreter | L |
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V | - |
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He kept no calendar of days | Q |
But knew the seasons by the flowers | R |
And he could tell you by the rays | Q |
Of sun or stars the very hours | R |
He probed the inner mysteries | S |
Of light and knew the chemic change | H |
That colors flowers and what is | T |
Their fragrance wild and strange | H |
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VI | - |
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If some old oak had power of speech | U |
It could not speak more wildwood lore | L |
Nor in experience further reach | U |
Than he who was a tree at core | L |
Nature was all his heritage | H |
And seemed to fill his every need | I |
Her features were his book whose page | H |
He never tired to read | V |
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VII | - |
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He read her secrets that no man | W |
Has ever read and never will | N |
And put to scorn the charlatan | X |
Who botanizes of her still | N |
He kept his knowledge sweet and clean | Y |
And questioned not of why and what | Z |
And never drew a line between | Y |
What's known and what is not | A2 |
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VIII | - |
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He was most gentle good and wise | F |
A simpler heart earth never saw | B2 |
His soul looked softly from his eyes | F |
And in his speech were love and awe | C2 |
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Yet Nature in the end denied | D2 |
The thing he had not asked for fame | O |
Unknown in poverty he died | D2 |
And men forget his name | O |
Madison Julius Cawein
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