St. John's Eve Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBBBD A CECCCD A FGHFFD D IJIIID D KILLLD D MNMOMD D PQPPPD D RSRRRD| I | A |
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| Dizzily round | B |
| On the elf hills white in the yellow moonlight | C |
| To a sweet unholy ravishing sound | B |
| Of wizard voices from underground | B |
| Their mazy dance the Elle maids wound | B |
| On St John's Eve | D |
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| II | A |
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| Beautiful white | C |
| Like a wreath of mist by the starbeams kissed | E |
| And frail sweet faces bloomed out on the night | C |
| From floating tresses of glow worm light | C |
| That puffed like foam to the left and the right | C |
| On St John's Eve | D |
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| III | A |
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| Warily there | F |
| They flashed like a rill which the moonbeams fill | G |
| But I saw what a mockery all of them were | H |
| With their hollow bodies when the moonlit air | F |
| Rayed out through their eyes with a sudden glare | F |
| On St John's Eve | D |
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| IV | D |
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| Solemnly sweet | I |
| By the river's banks in the rushes' ranks | J |
| The Necks their sorrowful songs repeat | I |
| A music of winds over dipping wheat | I |
| Of moss dulled cascades seemed to meet | I |
| On St John's Eve | D |
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| V | D |
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| Drowsily swam | K |
| The fire flies fleet in eddies of heat | I |
| Through the willows a glimmer of gold harps came | L |
| And I saw their hair like a misty flame | L |
| Bunched over white brows too white to name | L |
| On St John's Eve | D |
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| VI | D |
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| Beggarly torn | M |
| A wizen chap in a red peaked cap | N |
| All gray with the chaff and dust of the corn | M |
| And strong with the pungent scent of the barn | O |
| The Nis scowled under the flowering thorn | M |
| On St John's Eve | D |
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| VII | D |
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| Merrily call | P |
| The singing crickets in the twinkling thickets | Q |
| And the Troll hill rose on pillars tall | P |
| Crimson pillars that ranked a hall | P |
| Where the beak nosed Trolls were holding a ball | P |
| On St John's Eve | D |
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| VIII | D |
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| Reveling flew | R |
| From beakers of gold the wassail old | S |
| And she reached me a goblet brimmed bright with dew | R |
| But her wily witcheries well I knew | R |
| And the philtre over my shoulder threw | R |
| On St John's Eve | D |
Madison Julius Cawein
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