Standing-stone Creek Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCD EFEFGG HIHIJJ KLKLMM NONOEE PQPQRSA weed grown slope whereon the rain | A |
Has washed the brown rocks bare | B |
Leads tangled from a lonely lane | A |
Down to a creek's broad stair | B |
Of stone that through the solitude | C |
Winds onward to a quiet wood | D |
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An intermittent roof of shade | E |
The beech above it throws | F |
Along its steps a balustrade | E |
Of beauty builds the rose | F |
In which a stately lamp of green | G |
At intervals the cedar's seen | G |
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The water carpeting each ledge | H |
Of rock that runs across | I |
Glints 'twixt a flow'r embroidered edge | H |
Of ferns and grass and moss | I |
And in its deeps the wood and sky | J |
Seem patterns of the softest dye | J |
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Long corridors of pleasant dusk | K |
Within the house of leaves | L |
It reaches where on looms of musk | K |
The ceaseless locust weaves | L |
A web of summer and perfume | M |
Trails a sweet gown from room to room | M |
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Green windows of the boughs that swing | N |
It passes where the notes | O |
Of birds are glad thoughts entering | N |
And butterflies are motes | O |
And now a vista where the day | E |
Opens a door of wind and ray | E |
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It is a stairway for all sounds | P |
That haunt the woodland sides | Q |
On which boy like the southwind bounds | P |
Girl like the sunbeam glides | Q |
And like fond parents following these | R |
The oldtime dreams of rest and peace | S |
Madison Julius Cawein
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