The Egret Hunter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HCHC IJIJ IKIK ELML NINI EOEO| Through woods the Spanish moss makes gray | A |
| With deeps the daylight never reaches | B |
| The water sluices slow its way | A |
| And chokes with weeds its beaches | B |
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| 'T was here lost in this lone bayou | C |
| Where poison brims each blossom's throat | D |
| Last night I followed a firefly glow | E |
| And oared a leaky boat | D |
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| The way was dark and overhead | F |
| The wailing limpkin moaned and cried | G |
| The moss like cerements of the dead | F |
| Waved wildly on each side | G |
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| The way was black albeit the trees | H |
| Let here and there the moonlight through | C |
| The shadows 'mid the cypress knees | H |
| Seemed ominous of hue | C |
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| And then behold a boat that oozed | I |
| Slow slime and trailed rank water weeds | J |
| Loomed on me in which interfused | I |
| Great glow worms glowed like beads | J |
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| And in its rotting hulk upright | I |
| His eyeless eyes fixed far before | K |
| A dead man sat and stared at night | I |
| Grasping a rotting oar | K |
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| Slowly it passed and fearfully | E |
| The moccasin slid in its wake | L |
| The owl shrunk shrieking in its tree | M |
| And in its hole the snake | L |
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| But I who met it face to face | N |
| I could not shrink or turn aside | I |
| Within that dark and demon place | N |
| There was no place to hide | I |
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| Slowly it passed for me too slow | E |
| The grim Death in the moon's faint shine | O |
| Whose story haply none may know | E |
| Save th' owl that haunts the pine | O |
Madison Julius Cawein
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