The Hollow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCDC A EFEFEF A GHGHGH I JKJKJK I LMLMLM I GIGIGI| I | A |
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| Fleet swallows soared and darted | B |
| 'Neath empty vaults of blue | C |
| Thick leaves close clung or parted | D |
| To let the sunlight through | C |
| Each wild rose honey hearted | D |
| Bowed full of living dew | C |
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| II | A |
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| Down deep fair fields of Heaven | E |
| Beat wafts of air and balm | F |
| From southmost islands driven | E |
| And continents of calm | F |
| Bland winds by which were given | E |
| Hid hints of rustling palm | F |
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| III | A |
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| High birds soared high to hover | G |
| Thick leaves close clung to slip | H |
| Wild rose and snowy clover | G |
| Were warm for winds to dip | H |
| And one ungentle lover | G |
| A bee with robber lip | H |
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| IV | I |
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| Dart on O buoyant swallow | J |
| Kiss leaves and willing rose | K |
| Whose musk the sly winds follow | J |
| And bee that booming goes | K |
| But in this quiet hollow | J |
| I'll walk which no one knows | K |
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| V | I |
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| None save the moon that shineth | L |
| At night through rifted trees | M |
| The lonely flower that twineth | L |
| Frail blooms that no one sees | M |
| The whippoorwill that pineth | L |
| The sad sweet swaying breeze | M |
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| VI | I |
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| The lone white stars that glitter | G |
| The stream's complaining wave | I |
| Gray bats that dodge and flitter | G |
| Black crickets hid that rave | I |
| And me whose life is bitter | G |
| And one white head stone grave | I |
Madison Julius Cawein
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