The Chipmunk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBBCDCD A EFEEGHGH A IJIIJKJK C LMLLMNMN| I | A |
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| He makes a roadway of the crumbling fence | B |
| Or on the fallen tree brown as a leaf | C |
| Fall stripes with russet gambols down the dense | B |
| Green twilight of the woods We see not whence | B |
| He comes nor whither in a time so brief | C |
| He vanishes swift carrier of some Fay | D |
| Some pixy steed that haunts our child belief | C |
| A goblin glimpse upon some wildwood way | D |
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| II | A |
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| What harlequin mood of nature qualified | E |
| Him so with happiness and limbed him with | F |
| Such young activity as winds that ride | E |
| The ripples have dancing on every side | E |
| As sunbeams know that urge the sap and pith | G |
| Through hearts of trees yet made him to delight | H |
| Gnome like in darkness like a moonlight myth | G |
| Lairing in labyrinths of the under night | H |
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| III | A |
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| Here by a rock beneath the moss a hole | I |
| Leads to his home the den wherein he sleeps | J |
| Lulled by near noises of the laboring mole | I |
| Tunneling its mine like some ungainly Troll | I |
| Or by the tireless cricket there that keeps | J |
| Picking its rusty and monotonous lute | K |
| Or slower sounds of grass that creeps and creeps | J |
| And trees unrolling mighty root on root | K |
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| IV | C |
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| Such is the music of his sleeping hours | L |
| Day hath another 'tis a melody | M |
| He trips to made by the assembled flowers | L |
| And light and fragrance laughing 'mid the bowers | L |
| And ripeness busy with the acorn tree | M |
| Such strains perhaps as filled with mute amaze | N |
| The silent music of Earth's ecstasy | M |
| The Satyr's soul the Faun of classic days | N |
Madison Julius Cawein
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