Standing-stone Creek Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCD EFEFGG HIHIJJ KLKLMM NONOEE PQPQRS| A 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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