Poet Madison Julius Cawein

Madison Julius Cawein

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The Naiad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCADEFFEGGEHIJJI JJKHJDDJDDJDLMMLNNLN

She sits among the iris stalksA
Of babbling brooks and leans for hoursB
Among the river's lily flowersB
Or on their whiteness walksA
Above dark forest pools gray rocksC
Wall in she leans with dripping locksC
And listening to the echo talksA
With her own face IotheraD
There is no forest of the hillsE
No valley of the solitudeF
Nor fern nor moss that may eludeF
Her searching step that stillsE
She dreams among the wild rose brakesG
Of fountains that the ripple shakesG
And dreaming of herself she fillsE
The silence with 'Iothera 'H
And every wind that haunts the waysI
Of leaf and bough once having kissedJ
Her virgin nudity goes whistJ
With wonder and amazeI
There blows no breeze which hath not learnedJ
Her name's sweet melody and yearnedJ
To kiss her mouth that laughs and saysK
'Iothera Iothera 'H
No wild thing of the wood no birdJ
Or brown or blue or gold or grayD
Beneath the sun's or moonlight's rayD
That hath not loved and heardJ
They are her pupils she can sayD
No new thing but within a dayD
They have its music word for wordJ
Harmonious as IotheraD
No man who lives and is not wiseL
With love for common flowers and treesM
Bee bird and beast and brook and breezeM
And rocks and hills and skiesL
Search where he will shall ever seeN
One flutter of her draperyN
One glimpse of limbs or hair or eyesL
Of beautiful IotheraN

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