The Old Byway Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABAB CCDCD EEFEF GGHGH HHIHI| Its rotting fence one scarcely sees | A |
| Through sumac and wild blackberries | A |
| Thick elder and the bramble rose | B |
| Big ox eyed daisies where the bees | A |
| Hang droning in repose | B |
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| The little lizards lie all day | C |
| Gray on its rocks of lichen gray | C |
| And insect Ariels of the sun | D |
| The butterflies make bright its way | C |
| Its path where chipmunks run | D |
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| A lyric there the redbird lifts | E |
| While twittering the swallow drifts | E |
| 'Neath wandering clouds of sleepy cream | F |
| In which the wind makes azure rifts | E |
| O'er dells where wood doves dream | F |
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| The brown grasshoppers rasp and bound | G |
| Mid weeds and briers that hedge it round | G |
| And in its grass grown ruts where stirs | H |
| The harmless snake mole crickets sound | G |
| Their faery dulcimers | H |
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| At evening when the sad west turns | H |
| To lonely night a cheek that burns | H |
| The tree toads in the wild plum sing | I |
| And ghosts of long dead flowers and ferns | H |
| The winds wake whispering | I |
Madison Julius Cawein
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