The Lonely Land Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABBBCCCDDDEEFGGGHH HIIJKKKLLLMMMNNNIIIO OOBBBPPPIIIQQQOOOA RIVER binds the lonely land | A |
A river like a silver band | A |
To crags and shores of yellow sand | A |
It is a place where kildees cry | B |
And endless marshes eastward lie | B |
Whereon looks down a ghostly sky | B |
A house stands gray and all alone | C |
Upon a hill as dim of tone | C |
And lonely as a lonely stone | C |
There are no signs of life about | D |
No barnyard bustle cry and shout | D |
Of children who run laughing out | D |
No crow of cocks no low of cows | E |
No sheep bell tinkling under boughs | E |
Of beech or song in garth or house | F |
Only the curlew's mournful call | G |
Circling the sky at evenfall | G |
And loon lamenting over all | G |
A garden where the sunflower dies | H |
And lily on the pathway lies | H |
Looks blindly at the blinder skies | H |
And round the place a lone wind blows | I |
As when the Autumn grieving goes | I |
Tattered and dripping to its close | J |
And on decaying shrubs and vines | K |
The moon's thin crescent dwindling shines | K |
Caught in the claws of sombre pines | K |
And then a pale girl like a flower | L |
Enters the garden for an hour | L |
She waits beside a wild rose bower | L |
There is no other one around | M |
No sound except the cricket's sound | M |
And far off baying of a hound | M |
There is no fire or candle light | N |
To flash its message through the night | N |
Of welcome from some casement bright | N |
Only the moon that thinly throws | I |
A shadow on the girl and rose | I |
As to its setting slow it goes | I |
And when 'tis gone from shore and stream | O |
There steals a mist that turns to dream | O |
That place where all things merely seem | O |
And through the mist there goes a cry | B |
Not of the earth nor of the sky | B |
But of the years that have passed by | B |
And with the cry there comes the rain | P |
Whispering of all that was in vain | P |
At every door and window pane | P |
And she who waits beside the rose | I |
Hears with her heart a hoof that goes | I |
Galloping afar to where none knows | I |
And then she bows her head and weeps | Q |
And suddenly a shadow sweeps | Q |
Around and in its darkening deeps | Q |
The house the girl the cliffs and stream | O |
Are gone And they and all things seem | O |
But phantoms merely in a dream | O |
Madison Julius Cawein
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