The Dryad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFG HHIJKI LLMNNN IIOPPO NNQRRQ| I have seen her limpid eyes | A |
| Large with gradual laughter rise | A |
| Through wild roses' nettles | B |
| Like twin blossoms grow and stare | C |
| Then a hating envious air | C |
| Whisked them into petals | B |
| - | |
| I have seen her hardy cheek | D |
| Like a molten coral leak | D |
| Through the leafage shaded | E |
| Of thick Chickasaws and then | F |
| When I made more sure again | F |
| To a red plum faded | G |
| - | |
| I have found her racy lips | H |
| And her graceful finger tips | H |
| But a haw and berry | I |
| Glimmers of her there and here | J |
| Just forsooth enough to cheer | K |
| And to make me merry | I |
| - | |
| Often on the ferny rocks | L |
| Dazzling rimples of loose locks | L |
| At me she hath shaken | M |
| And I've followed 'twas in vain | N |
| They had trickled into rain | N |
| Sun lit on the braken | N |
| - | |
| Once her full limbs flashed on me | I |
| Naked where some royal tree | I |
| Powdered all the spaces | O |
| With wan sunlight and quaint shade | P |
| Such a haunt romance hath made | P |
| For haunched satyr races | O |
| - | |
| There I wot hid amorous Pan | N |
| For a sudden pleading ran | N |
| Through the maze of myrtle | Q |
| Whiles a rapid violence tossed | R |
| All its flowerage 'twas the lost | R |
| Cooings of a turtle | Q |
Madison Julius Cawein
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