The Moonmen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB BB CC BB DD EE BB BB FF GG HH II JK LL BB MN OO PP BB BB BB QQ BB PP RS QQ PP TT BB| I stood in the forest on HURON HILL | A |
| When the night was old and the world was still | A |
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| The Wind was a wizard who muttering strode | B |
| In a raven cloak on a haunted road | B |
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| The Sound of Water a witch who crooned | B |
| Her spells to the rocks the rain had runed | B |
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| And the Gleam of the Dew on the fern's green tip | C |
| Was a sylvan passing with robe a drip | C |
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| The Light of the Stars was a glimmering maid | B |
| Who stole an elfin from glade to glade | B |
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| The Scent of the Woods in the delicate air | D |
| A wildflower shape with chilly hair | D |
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| And Silence a spirit who sat alone | E |
| With a lifted finger and eyes of stone | E |
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| And it seemed to me these six were met | B |
| To greet a greater who came not yet | B |
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| And the speech they spoke that I listened to | B |
| Was the archetype of the speech I knew | B |
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| For the Wind clasped hands with the Water's rush | F |
| And I heard them whisper Hush oh hush | F |
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| The Light of the Stars and the Dew's cool gleam | G |
| Touched lips and murmured Dream oh dream | G |
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| The Scent of the Woods and the Silence deep | H |
| Sighed bosom to bosom Sleep oh sleep | H |
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| And so for a moment the six were dumb | I |
| Then exulted together They come they come | I |
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| And I stood expectant and seemed to hear | J |
| A visible music drawing near | K |
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| And the first who came was the Captain Moon | L |
| Bearing a shield in GOD'S House hewn | L |
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| Then an Army of glamour a glittering Host | B |
| Beleaguered the night from coast to coast | B |
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| And the world was filled with spheric fire | M |
| From the palpitant chords of many a lyre | N |
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| As out of the East the MOONMEN came | O |
| Smiting their harps of silver and flame | O |
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| More beauty and grace did their forms express | P |
| Than the QUEEN OF LOVE'S white nakedness | P |
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| More chastity too their faces held | B |
| Than the snowy breasts of DIANA swelled | B |
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| Translucent limbed I saw the beat | B |
| In their hearts of pearl of the golden heat | B |
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| And the hair they tossed was a crystal light | B |
| And the eyes beneath it were burning white | B |
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| Their hands that lifted their feet that fell | Q |
| Made the darkness blossom to asphodel | Q |
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| And the heavens the hills and the streams they trod | B |
| Shone pale with th' communicated God | B |
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| A placid frenzy a waking trance | P |
| A soft oracular radiance | P |
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| Wrapped forms that moved as melodies move | R |
| Laurelled with god head and halo'd with love | S |
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| So there in the forest on HURON HILL | Q |
| The MOONMEN camped when the world was still | Q |
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| What wonder that they who have looked on these | P |
| Are lost to the earth's realities | P |
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| That they sit aside with a far off look | T |
| Dreaming the dreams that are writ in no book | T |
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| That they walk alone till the day they die | B |
| Even as I yea even as I | B |
Madison Julius Cawein
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