Phantoms Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CDCDD EFEFF GHGHH IJIJJ KLKLL MNMNN| This was her home one mossy gable thrust | A |
| Above the cedars and the locust trees | B |
| This was her home whose beauty now is dust | A |
| A lonely memory for melodies | B |
| The wild birds sing the wild birds and the bees | B |
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| Here every evening is a prayer no boast | C |
| Or ruin of sunset makes the wan world wroth | D |
| Here through the twilight like a pale flower's ghost | C |
| A drowsy flutter flies the tiger moth | D |
| And dusk spreads darkness like a dewy cloth | D |
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| In vagabond velvet on the placid day | E |
| A stain of crimson lolls the butterfly | F |
| The south wind sows with ripple and with ray | E |
| The pleasant waters and the gentle sky | F |
| Looks on the homestead like a quiet eye | F |
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| Their melancholy quaver lone and low | G |
| When day is done the gray tree toads repeat | H |
| The whippoorwills far in the afterglow | G |
| Complain to silence and the lightnings beat | H |
| In one still cloud glimmers of golden heat | H |
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| He comes not yet not till the dusk is dead | I |
| And all the western glow is far withdrawn | J |
| Not till a sleepy mouth love's kiss makes red | I |
| The baby bud opes in a rosy yawn | J |
| Breathing sweet guesses at the dreamed of dawn | J |
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| When in the shadows like a rain of gold | K |
| The fireflies stream steadily and bright | L |
| Along the moss the glowworm as of old | K |
| A crawling sparkle like a crooked light | L |
| In smoldering vellum scrawls a square of night | L |
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| Then will he come and she will lean to him | M |
| She the sweet phantom memory of that place | N |
| Between the starlight and his eyes so dim | M |
| With suave control and soul compelling grace | N |
| He cannot help but speak her face to face | N |
Madison Julius Cawein
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