Quiet Lanes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBDBDEEEBFFGEEBGB HHBBIBIBAIJABAJECEKJ KJJBJBBB LMMLLNLNLLAOOALLPPBB QR OOOSTTUVVCCVWEVELEBB LBBWLLBFrom the lyrical eclogue 'One Day and Another' | A |
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Now rests the season in forgetfulness | B |
Careless in beauty of maturity | C |
The ripened roses round brown temples she | C |
Fulfills completion in a dreamy guess | B |
Now Time grants night the more and day the less | B |
The gray decides and brown | D |
Dim golds and drabs in dulling green express | B |
Themselves and redden as the year goes down | D |
Sadder the fields where thrusting hoary high | E |
Their tasseled heads the Lear like corn stocks die | E |
And Falstaff like buff bellied pumpkins lie | E |
Deepening with tenderness | B |
Sadder the blue of hills that lounge along | F |
The lonesome west sadder the song | F |
Of the wild redbird in the leafage yellow | G |
Deeper and dreamier aye | E |
Than woods or waters leans the languid sky | E |
Above lone orchards where the cider press | B |
Drips and the russets mellow | G |
Nature grows liberal from the beechen leaves | B |
The beech nuts' burrs their little purses thrust | H |
Plump with the copper of the nuts that rust | H |
Above the grass the spendthrift spider weaves | B |
A web of silver for which dawn designs | B |
Thrice twenty rows of pearls beneath the oak | I |
That rolls old roots in many gnarly lines | B |
The polished acorns from their saucers broke | I |
Strew oval agates On sonorous pines | B |
The far wind organs but the forest near | A |
Is silent and the blue white smoke | I |
Of burning brush beyond that field of hay | J |
Hangs like a pillar in the atmosphere | A |
But now it shakes it breaks and all the vines | B |
And tree tops tremble see the wind is here | A |
Billowing and boisterous and the smiling day | J |
Rejoices in its clamor Earth and sky | E |
Resound with glory of its majesty | C |
Impetuous splendor of its rushing by | E |
But on those heights the woodland dark is still | K |
Expectant of its coming Far away | J |
Each anxious tree upon each waiting hill | K |
Tingles anticipation as in gray | J |
Surmise of rapture Now the first gusts play | J |
Like laughter low about their rippling spines | B |
And now the wildwood one exultant sway | J |
Shouts and the light at each tumultuous pause | B |
The light that glooms and shines | B |
Seems hands in wild applause | B |
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How glows that garden Though the white mists keep | L |
The vagabonding flowers reminded of | M |
Decay that comes to slay in open love | M |
When the full moon hangs cold and night is deep | L |
Unheeding still their cardinal colors leap | L |
Gay in the crescent of the blade of death | N |
Spaced innocents whom he prepares to reap | L |
Staying his scythe a breath | N |
To mark their beauty ere with one last sweep | L |
He lays them dead and turns away to weep | L |
Let me admire | A |
Before the sickle of the coming cold | O |
Shall mow them down their beauties manifold | O |
How like to spurts of fire | A |
That scarlet salvia lifts its blooms which heap | L |
With flame the sunlight And as sparkles creep | L |
Through charring vellum up that window's screen | P |
The cypress dots with crimson all its green | P |
The haunt of many bees | B |
Cascading dark old porch built lattices | B |
The nightshade bleeds with berries drops of blood | Q |
Hanging in clusters 'mid the blue monk's hood | R |
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There is a garden old | O |
Where bright hued clumps of zinnias unfold | O |
Their formal flowers where the marigold | O |
Lifts a pinched shred of orange sunset caught | S |
And elfed in petals the nasturtium | T |
Deep pungent leaved and acrid of perfume | T |
Hangs up a goblin bonnet pixy brought | U |
From Gnomeland There predominant red | V |
And arrogant the dahlia lifts its head | V |
Beside the balsam's rose stained horns of honey | C |
Lost in the murmuring sunny | C |
Dry wildness of the weedy flower bed | V |
Where crickets and the weed bugs noon and night | W |
Shrill dirges for the flowers that soon shall die | E |
And flowers already dead | V |
I seem to hear the passing Summer sigh | E |
A voice that seems to weep | L |
'Too soon too soon the Beautiful passes by | E |
And soon among these bowers | B |
Will dripping Autumn mourn with all her flowers' | B |
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If I perchance might peep | L |
Beneath those leaves of podded hollyhocks | B |
That the bland wind with odorous murmurs rocks | B |
I might behold her white | W |
And weary Summer 'mid her flowers asleep | L |
Her drowsy flowers asleep | L |
The withered poppies knotted in her locks | B |
Madison Julius Cawein
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