The Glowworm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC AA DD EF AA CC GG HH AA II JJ KL M NN OO PP QQ RS AA TU| How long had I sat there and had not beheld | A |
| The gleam of the glow worm till something compelled | A |
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| The heaven was starless the forest was deep | B |
| And the vistas of darkness stretched silent in sleep | B |
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| And late 'mid the trees had I lingered until | C |
| No thing was awake but the lone whippoorwill | C |
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| And haunted of thoughts for an hour I sat | A |
| On a lichen gray rock where the moss was a mat | A |
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| And thinking of one whom my heart had held dear | D |
| Like terrible waters a gathering fear | D |
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| Came stealing upon me with all the distress | E |
| Of loss and of yearning and powerlessness | F |
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| Till the hopes and the doubts and the sleepless unrest | A |
| That swallow like built in the home of my breast | A |
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| Now hither now thither now heavenward flew | C |
| Wild winged as the winds are now suddenly drew | C |
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| My soul to abysses of nothingness where | G |
| All light was a shadow all hope a despair | G |
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| Where truth that religion had set upon high | H |
| The darkness distorted and changed to a lie | H |
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| And dreams of the beauty ambition had fed | A |
| Like leaves of the autumn fell blighted and dead | A |
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| And I rose with my burden of anguish and doom | I |
| And cried 'O my God had I died in the womb | I |
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| 'Than born into night with no hope of the morn | J |
| An heir unto shadows to live so forlorn | J |
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| 'All effort is vain and the planet called Faith | K |
| Sinks down and no power is real but death | L |
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| 'Oh light me a torch in the deepening dark | M |
| So my sick soul may follow my sad heart may mark ' | - |
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| And then in the darkness the answer It came | N |
| From Earth not from Heaven a glimmering flame | N |
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| Behold at my feet In the shadow it shone | O |
| Mysteriously lovely and dimly alone | O |
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| An ember a sparkle of dew and of glower | P |
| Like the lamp that a spirit hangs under a flower | P |
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| As goldenly green as the phosphorus star | Q |
| A fairy may wear in her diadem's bar | Q |
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| An element essence of moonlight and dawn | R |
| That trodden and trampled burns on and burns on | S |
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| And hushed was my soul with the lesson of light | A |
| That God had revealed to me there in the night | A |
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| Though mortal its structure material its form | T |
| The spiritual message of worm unto worm | U |
Madison Julius Cawein
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