The Dead Oread Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDFFF FGFHFF FBFBBB IJIJFF| Her heart is still and leaps no more | A |
| With holy passion when the breeze | B |
| Her whilom playmate as before | A |
| Comes with the language of the bees | B |
| Sad songs her mountain cedars sing | C |
| And water music murmuring | C |
| - | |
| Her calm white feet erst fleet and fast | D |
| As Daphne's when a god pursued | E |
| No more will dance like sunlight past | D |
| The gold green vistas of the wood | F |
| Where every quailing floweret | F |
| Smiled into life where they were set | F |
| - | |
| Hers were the limbs of living light | F |
| And breasts of snow as virginal | G |
| As mountain drifts and throat as white | F |
| As foam of mountain waterfall | H |
| And hyacinthine curls that streamed | F |
| Like crag born mists and gloomed and gleamed | F |
| - | |
| Her presence breathed such scents as haunt | F |
| Moist mountain dells and solitudes | B |
| Aromas wild as some wild plant | F |
| That fills with sweetness all the woods | B |
| And comradeships of stars and skies | B |
| Shone in the azure of her eyes | B |
| - | |
| Her grave be by a mossy rock | I |
| Upon the top of some wild hill | J |
| Removed remote from men who mock | I |
| The myths and dreams of life they kill | J |
| Where all of beauty naught of lust | F |
| May guard her solitary dust | F |
Madison Julius Cawein
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