Prologue (kentucky Poems) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABACCDEDF GHGHHIHII HGHGGEGEE JHJHHAHA HKHKLAKAA AMAMMHMHH

There is a poetry that speaksA
Through common things the grasshopperB
That in the hot weeds creaks and creaksA
Says all of summer to my earC
And in the cricket's cry I hearC
The fireside speak and feel the frostD
Work mysteries of silver nearE
On country casements while deep lostD
In snow the gatepost seems a sheeted ghostF
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And other things give rare delightG
Those guttural harps the green frogs tuneH
Those minstrels of the falling nightG
That hail the sickle of the moonH
From grassy pools that glass her luneH
Or all of August in its loudI
Dry cry the locust's call at noonH
That tells of heat and never a cloudI
To veil the pitiless sun as with a shroudI
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The rain whose cloud dark lids the moonH
The great white eyeball of the nightG
Makes music for me to its tuneH
I hear the flowers unfolding whiteG
The mushroom growing and the slightG
Green sound of grass that dances nearE
The melon ripening with delightG
And in the orchard soft and clearE
The apple redly rounding out its sphereE
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The grigs make music as of oldJ
To which the fairies whirl and shineH
Within the moonlight's prodigal goldJ
On woodways wild with many a vineH
When all the wilderness with wineH
Of stars is drunk I hear it sayA
'Is God restricted to confineH
His wonders only to the dayA
That yields the abstract tangible to clay '-
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And to my ear the wind of MornH
When on her rubric forehead farK
One star burns big lifts a vast hornH
Of wonder where all murmurs areK
In which I hear the waters warL
The torrent and the blue abyssA
And pines that terrace bar on barK
The mountain side like lovers' kissA
And whisper words where naught but grandeur isA
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The jutting crags all iron veinedA
With ore the peaks where eagles screamM
That pour their cataracts rainbow stainedA
Like hair in many a mountain streamM
Can lift my soul beyond the dreamM
Of all religions make me scanH
No mere external or extremeM
But inward pierce the outward planH
And learn that rocks have souls as well as manH

Madison Julius Cawein



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