The Blue Mertensia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDC EFEF GHGH IJI KLKL| This is the path he used to take | A |
| That ended at a rose porched door | B |
| He takes it now for oldtime's sake | A |
| And love of yore | B |
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| The blue mertensia by the stone | C |
| Lifts questioning eyes that seem to say | D |
| 'Why is it now you walk alone | C |
| On this dim way ' | - |
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| And then a wild bird from a bough | E |
| Out of his heart the answer takes | F |
| 'He walks alone with memory now | E |
| And heart that breaks | F |
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| 'And Loss and Longing witches who | G |
| Usurp the wood and change to woe | H |
| The dream of happiness he knew | G |
| Long long ago | H |
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| 'The faery princess from whose gaze | I |
| The blue mertensia learned that look | J |
| Retaining still beside these ways | I |
| The joy it took ' | - |
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| He listens conscious of no part | K |
| In wildwood question and reply | L |
| The wood from out its mighty heart | K |
| Heaves one deep sigh | L |
Madison Julius Cawein
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