Poet Madison Julius Cawein

Madison Julius Cawein

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Rose And Redbird - A Faerytale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEF GGHHI JJKKLL AAGGMM MMNNMM MMOOMM PPQQRR

I had the strangest dream last nightA
I dreamed the poppies red and whiteA
That over run the flower bedB
Changed to wee women white and redB
Who jeweled with the twinkling wetC
Joined hands and danced a minuetC
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And there beside the garden walkD
I thought a red rose stood at talkD
With a black cricket and I heardE
The cricket say 'You are the birdE
Red crested who comes every dayF
To sing his lyric roundelay '-
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The rose replied 'Nay you must knowG
That bird and I loved long agoG
I am a princess he a princeH
And we were parted ever sinceH
The world of science made us donI
The new disguises we have on '-
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And then the rose put off disguiseJ
And stood revealed before my eyesJ
A faery princess and in blackK
His tiny fiddle on his backK
An elfin fiddler long of noseL
The cricket bowed before the roseL
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A house of moss and firefly lightA
Now seemed to rise within the nightA
Beside the tree where bending lowG
The flowers stood a silken rowG
Around the rose a faery bandM
Before the Queen of FaerylandM
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And suddenly I saw the sideM
Of a great beech tree open wideM
And there behold were wondrous thingsN
Slim flower like people bright with wingsN
Who bowed before a throne of stateM
Whereon the rose and redbird sateM
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And then I woke and there beholdM
Was naught except the moonlight's goldM
On tree and garden and the flowersO
Safe snuggled in their beds and bowersO
The rose was gone but where she'd stoodM
Lay scattered crimson of her hoodM
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The cricket still was at his tuneP
Somewhere between the dawn and moonP
And I'd have sworn it was a dreamQ
Had I not glimpsed a glowworm gleamQ
And heard a chuckling in the treeR
And seen the dewdropp wink at meR

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