The Charcoal-burner's Hut Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEDDDFDGH IDJKLMNOPQD CDRSTOUUVUU WXDUXRDQY| Deep in a valley green with ancient beech | A |
| And wandered through of one small silent stream | B |
| Whose bear grassed banks bristled with brush and burr | C |
| Tick trefoil and the thorny marigold | D |
| Bush clover and the wahoo hung with pods | E |
| And mass on mass of bugled jewelweed | D |
| Horsemint and doddered ragweed dense unkempt | D |
| I came upon a charcoal burner's hut | D |
| Abandoned and forgotten long ago | F |
| His hut and weedy pit where once the wood | D |
| Smouldered both day and night like some wild forge | G |
| A wildwood forge glaring as wild cat eyes | H |
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| A mossy roof black fallen in decay | I |
| And rotting logs exuding sickly mold | D |
| And livid fungi and the tottering wreck | J |
| Rude remnants of a chimney clay and sticks | K |
| Were all that now remained to say that once | L |
| In time not so remote one labored here | M |
| Labored and lived his world bound by these woods | N |
| A solitary soul whose life was toil | O |
| Toil grimy and unlovely sad recluse | P |
| A life perhaps that here went out alone | Q |
| Alone and unlamented | D |
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| Lost forever | C |
| Haply somewhere in some far wilder spot | D |
| Far in the forest lone as was his life | R |
| A grave an isolated grave may mark | S |
| Tangled with cat brier and the strawberry bush | T |
| The place he lies in undistinguishable | O |
| From the surrounding forest where the lynx | U |
| Whines in the moonlight and the she fox whelps | U |
| A life as some wood fungus now forgotten | V |
| The Indian pipe or ghost flower here that rises | U |
| And slowly rots away in autumn rains | U |
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| Or it may be a comrade carved a line | W |
| Of date and death on some old trunk of tree | X |
| Whose letters long ago th' erasing rust | D |
| Of moss and gradual growth of drowsy years | U |
| Slowly obliterated or may be | X |
| The rock all rudely lettered like his life | R |
| Set up above him by some kindly hand | D |
| A tree's great grasping roots have overthrown | Q |
| Where lichens long ago effaced his name | Y |
Madison Julius Cawein
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