Rain In The Woods Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABA CDCDC EFEFE GHGHG IJIJI KLKLK MNMNM OLPLP QRQRQ SLSLS| When on the leaves the rain persists | A |
| And every gust brings showers down | B |
| When all the woodland smokes with mists | A |
| I take the old road out of town | B |
| Into the hills through which it twists | A |
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| I find the vale where catnip grows | C |
| Where boneset blooms with moisture bowed | D |
| The vale through which the red creek flows | C |
| Turbid with hill washed clay and loud | D |
| As some wild horn a hunter blows | C |
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| Around the root the beetle glides | E |
| A living beryl and the ant | F |
| Large agate red a garnet slides | E |
| Beneath the rock and every plant | F |
| Is roof for some frail thing that hides | E |
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| Like knots against the trunks of trees | G |
| The lichen colored moths are pressed | H |
| And wedged in hollow blooms the bees | G |
| Seem clots of pollen in its nest | H |
| The wasp has crawled and lies at ease | G |
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| The locust harsh that sharply saws | I |
| The silence of the summer noon | J |
| The katydid that thinly draws | I |
| Its fine file o'er the bars of moon | J |
| And grasshopper that drills each pause | I |
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| The mantis long clawed furtive lean | K |
| Fierce feline of the insect hordes | L |
| And dragonfly gauze winged and green | K |
| Beneath the wild grape's leaves and gourd's | L |
| Have housed themselves and rest unseen | K |
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| The butterfly and forest bird | M |
| Are huddled on the same gnarled bough | N |
| From which like some rain voweled word | M |
| That dampness hoarsely utters now | N |
| The tree toad's voice is vaguely heard | M |
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| I crouch and listen and again | O |
| The woods are filled with phantom forms | L |
| With shapes grotesque in mystic train | P |
| That rise and reach to me cool arms | L |
| Of mist the wandering wraiths of rain | P |
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| I see them come fantastic fair | Q |
| Chill mushroom colored sky and earth | R |
| Grow ghostly with their floating hair | Q |
| And trailing limbs that have their birth | R |
| In wetness fungi of the air | Q |
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| O wraiths of rain O ghosts of mist | S |
| Still fold me hold me and pursue | L |
| Still let my lips by yours be kissed | S |
| Still draw me with your hands of dew | L |
| Unto the tryst the dripping tryst | S |
Madison Julius Cawein
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