The Lonely Land Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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A RIVER binds the lonely landA
A river like a silver bandA
To crags and shores of yellow sandA
It is a place where kildees cryB
And endless marshes eastward lieB
Whereon looks down a ghostly skyB
A house stands gray and all aloneC
Upon a hill as dim of toneC
And lonely as a lonely stoneC
There are no signs of life aboutD
No barnyard bustle cry and shoutD
Of children who run laughing outD
No crow of cocks no low of cowsE
No sheep bell tinkling under boughsE
Of beech or song in garth or houseF
Only the curlew's mournful callG
Circling the sky at evenfallG
And loon lamenting over allG
A garden where the sunflower diesH
And lily on the pathway liesH
Looks blindly at the blinder skiesH
And round the place a lone wind blowsI
As when the Autumn grieving goesI
Tattered and dripping to its closeJ
And on decaying shrubs and vinesK
The moon's thin crescent dwindling shinesK
Caught in the claws of sombre pinesK
And then a pale girl like a flowerL
Enters the garden for an hourL
She waits beside a wild rose bowerL
There is no other one aroundM
No sound except the cricket's soundM
And far off baying of a houndM
There is no fire or candle lightN
To flash its message through the nightN
Of welcome from some casement brightN
Only the moon that thinly throwsI
A shadow on the girl and roseI
As to its setting slow it goesI
And when 'tis gone from shore and streamO
There steals a mist that turns to dreamO
That place where all things merely seemO
And through the mist there goes a cryB
Not of the earth nor of the skyB
But of the years that have passed byB
And with the cry there comes the rainP
Whispering of all that was in vainP
At every door and window paneP
And she who waits beside the roseI
Hears with her heart a hoof that goesI
Galloping afar to where none knowsI
And then she bows her head and weepsQ
And suddenly a shadow sweepsQ
Around and in its darkening deepsQ
The house the girl the cliffs and streamO
Are gone And they and all things seemO
But phantoms merely in a dreamO

Madison Julius Cawein



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