Quiet Lanes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBDBDEEEBFFGEEBGB HHBBIBIBAIJABAJECEKJ KJJBJBBB LMMLLNLNLLAOOALLPPBB QR OOOSTTUVVCCVWEVELEBB LBBWLLB

From the lyrical eclogue 'One Day and Another'A
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Now rests the season in forgetfulnessB
Careless in beauty of maturityC
The ripened roses round brown temples sheC
Fulfills completion in a dreamy guessB
Now Time grants night the more and day the lessB
The gray decides and brownD
Dim golds and drabs in dulling green expressB
Themselves and redden as the year goes downD
Sadder the fields where thrusting hoary highE
Their tasseled heads the Lear like corn stocks dieE
And Falstaff like buff bellied pumpkins lieE
Deepening with tendernessB
Sadder the blue of hills that lounge alongF
The lonesome west sadder the songF
Of the wild redbird in the leafage yellowG
Deeper and dreamier ayeE
Than woods or waters leans the languid skyE
Above lone orchards where the cider pressB
Drips and the russets mellowG
Nature grows liberal from the beechen leavesB
The beech nuts' burrs their little purses thrustH
Plump with the copper of the nuts that rustH
Above the grass the spendthrift spider weavesB
A web of silver for which dawn designsB
Thrice twenty rows of pearls beneath the oakI
That rolls old roots in many gnarly linesB
The polished acorns from their saucers brokeI
Strew oval agates On sonorous pinesB
The far wind organs but the forest nearA
Is silent and the blue white smokeI
Of burning brush beyond that field of hayJ
Hangs like a pillar in the atmosphereA
But now it shakes it breaks and all the vinesB
And tree tops tremble see the wind is hereA
Billowing and boisterous and the smiling dayJ
Rejoices in its clamor Earth and skyE
Resound with glory of its majestyC
Impetuous splendor of its rushing byE
But on those heights the woodland dark is stillK
Expectant of its coming Far awayJ
Each anxious tree upon each waiting hillK
Tingles anticipation as in grayJ
Surmise of rapture Now the first gusts playJ
Like laughter low about their rippling spinesB
And now the wildwood one exultant swayJ
Shouts and the light at each tumultuous pauseB
The light that glooms and shinesB
Seems hands in wild applauseB
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How glows that garden Though the white mists keepL
The vagabonding flowers reminded ofM
Decay that comes to slay in open loveM
When the full moon hangs cold and night is deepL
Unheeding still their cardinal colors leapL
Gay in the crescent of the blade of deathN
Spaced innocents whom he prepares to reapL
Staying his scythe a breathN
To mark their beauty ere with one last sweepL
He lays them dead and turns away to weepL
Let me admireA
Before the sickle of the coming coldO
Shall mow them down their beauties manifoldO
How like to spurts of fireA
That scarlet salvia lifts its blooms which heapL
With flame the sunlight And as sparkles creepL
Through charring vellum up that window's screenP
The cypress dots with crimson all its greenP
The haunt of many beesB
Cascading dark old porch built latticesB
The nightshade bleeds with berries drops of bloodQ
Hanging in clusters 'mid the blue monk's hoodR
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There is a garden oldO
Where bright hued clumps of zinnias unfoldO
Their formal flowers where the marigoldO
Lifts a pinched shred of orange sunset caughtS
And elfed in petals the nasturtiumT
Deep pungent leaved and acrid of perfumeT
Hangs up a goblin bonnet pixy broughtU
From Gnomeland There predominant redV
And arrogant the dahlia lifts its headV
Beside the balsam's rose stained horns of honeyC
Lost in the murmuring sunnyC
Dry wildness of the weedy flower bedV
Where crickets and the weed bugs noon and nightW
Shrill dirges for the flowers that soon shall dieE
And flowers already deadV
I seem to hear the passing Summer sighE
A voice that seems to weepL
'Too soon too soon the Beautiful passes byE
And soon among these bowersB
Will dripping Autumn mourn with all her flowers'B
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If I perchance might peepL
Beneath those leaves of podded hollyhocksB
That the bland wind with odorous murmurs rocksB
I might behold her whiteW
And weary Summer 'mid her flowers asleepL
Her drowsy flowers asleepL
The withered poppies knotted in her locksB

Madison Julius Cawein



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