Prologue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCDEDF GHGHHIHII HGHGGEGEE JHJHHAHA HKHKLAKAA AMAMMHMHH| There is a poetry that speaks | A |
| Through common things the grasshopper | B |
| That in the hot weeds creaks and creaks | A |
| Says all of summer to my ear | C |
| And in the cricket's cry I hear | C |
| The fireside speak and feel the frost | D |
| Work mysteries of silver near | E |
| On country casements while deep lost | D |
| In snow the gatepost seems a sheeted ghost | F |
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| And other things give rare delight | G |
| Those guttural harps the green frogs tune | H |
| Those minstrels of the falling night | G |
| That hail the sickle of the moon | H |
| From grassy pools that glass her lune | H |
| Or all of August in its loud | I |
| Dry cry the locust's call at noon | H |
| That tells of heat and never a cloud | I |
| To veil the pitiless sun as with a shroud | I |
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| The rain whose cloud dark lids the moon | H |
| The great white eyeball of the night | G |
| Makes music for me to its tune | H |
| I hear the flowers unfolding white | G |
| The mushroom growing and the slight | G |
| Green sound of grass that dances near | E |
| The melon ripening with delight | G |
| And in the orchard soft and clear | E |
| The apple redly rounding out its sphere | E |
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| The grigs make music as of old | J |
| To which the fairies whirl and shine | H |
| Within the moonlight's prodigal gold | J |
| On woodways wild with many a vine | H |
| When all the wilderness with wine | H |
| Of stars is drunk I hear it say | A |
| 'Is God restricted to confine | H |
| His wonders only to the day | A |
| That yields the abstract tangible to clay ' | - |
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| And to my ear the mind of Morn | H |
| When on her rubric forehead far | K |
| One star burns big lifts a vast horn | H |
| Of wonder where all murmurs are | K |
| In which I hear the waters war | L |
| The torrent and the blue abyss | A |
| And pines that terrace bar on bar | K |
| The mountain side like lovers' kiss | A |
| And whisper words where naught but grandeur is | A |
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| The jutting crags all iron veined | A |
| With ore the peaks where eagles scream | M |
| That pour their cataracts rainbow stained | A |
| Like hair in many a mountain stream | M |
| Can lift my soul beyond the dream | M |
| Of all religions make me scan | H |
| No mere external or extreme | M |
| But inward pierce the outward plan | H |
| And learn that rocks have souls as well as man | H |
Madison Julius Cawein
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