Paths Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCCDEDE A BBFFGGGGHGH A BBIIJJJGKGK H BBGGLLLMNON| I | A |
| - | |
| What words of mine can tell the spell | B |
| Of garden ways I know so well | B |
| The path that takes me in the spring | C |
| Past quince trees where the bluebirds sing | C |
| And peonies are blossoming | C |
| Unto a porch wistaria hung | D |
| Around whose steps May lilies blow | E |
| A fair girl reaches down among | D |
| Her arm more white than their sweet snow | E |
| - | |
| II | A |
| - | |
| What words of mine can tell the spell | B |
| Of garden ways I know so well | B |
| Another path that leads me when | F |
| The summer time is here again | F |
| Past hollyhocks that shame the west | G |
| When the red sun has sunk to rest | G |
| To roses bowering a nest | G |
| A lattice 'neath which mignonette | G |
| And deep geraniums surge and sough | H |
| Where in the twilight starless yet | G |
| A fair girl's eyes are stars enough | H |
| - | |
| III | A |
| - | |
| What words of mine can tell the spell | B |
| Of garden ways I know so well | B |
| A path that takes me when the days | I |
| Of autumn wrap the hills in haze | I |
| Beneath the pippin pelting tree | J |
| 'Mid flitting butterfly and bee | J |
| Unto a door where fiery | J |
| The creeper climbs and garnet hued | G |
| The cock's comb and the dahlia flare | K |
| And in the door where shades intrude | G |
| Gleams bright a fair girl's sunbeam hair | K |
| - | |
| IV | H |
| - | |
| What words of mine can tell the spell | B |
| Of garden ways I know so well | B |
| A path that brings me through the frost | G |
| Of winter when the moon is tossed | G |
| In clouds beneath great cedars weak | L |
| With shaggy snow past shrubs blown bleak | L |
| With shivering leaves to eaves that leak | L |
| The tattered ice whereunder is | M |
| A fire flickering window space | N |
| And in the light with lips to kiss | O |
| A fair girl's welcome smiling face | N |
Madison Julius Cawein
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