One Who Loved Nature Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDE A FGFGHIHI A JKJKLMNM NONOPLPL QRQRSHTH ULULHIHV WNXNYZYA2 FB2FC2 D2OD2O

IA
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He was not learned in any artB
But Nature led him by the handC
And spoke her language to his heartB
So he could hear and understandC
He loved her simply as a childD
And in his love forgot the heatE
Of conflict and sat reconciledD
In patience of defeatE
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IIA
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Before me now I see him riseF
A face that seventy years had snowedG
With winter where the kind blue eyesF
Like hospitable fires glowedG
A small gray man whose heart was largeH
And big with knowledge learned of needI
A heart the hard world made its targeH
That never ceased to bleedI
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IIIA
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He knew all Nature Yea he knewJ
What virtue lay within each flowerK
What tonic in the dawn and dewJ
And in each root what magic powerK
What in the wild witch hazel treeL
Reversed its time of blossomingM
And clothed its branches goldenlyN
In fall instead of springM
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IV-
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He knew what made the firefly glowN
And pulse with crystal gold and flameO
And whence the bloodroot got its snowN
And how the bramble's perfume cameO
He understood the water's wordP
And grasshopper's and cricket's chirrL
And of the music of each birdP
He was interpreterL
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V-
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He kept no calendar of daysQ
But knew the seasons by the flowersR
And he could tell you by the raysQ
Of sun or stars the very hoursR
He probed the inner mysteriesS
Of light and knew the chemic changeH
That colors flowers and what isT
Their fragrance wild and strangeH
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VI-
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If some old oak had power of speechU
It could not speak more wildwood loreL
Nor in experience further reachU
Than he who was a tree at coreL
Nature was all his heritageH
And seemed to fill his every needI
Her features were his book whose pageH
He never tired to readV
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He read her secrets that no manW
Has ever read and never willN
And put to scorn the charlatanX
Who botanizes of her stillN
He kept his knowledge sweet and cleanY
And questioned not of why and whatZ
And never drew a line betweenY
What's known and what is notA2
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VIII-
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He was most gentle good and wiseF
A simpler heart earth never sawB2
His soul looked softly from his eyesF
And in his speech were love and aweC2
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Yet Nature in the end deniedD2
The thing he had not asked for fameO
Unknown in poverty he diedD2
And men forget his nameO

Madison Julius Cawein



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