The Old Creek Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDD FDFDGDHD DDDDIJIJ KLKLMNMN| The frogs still cry 'Knee deep knee deep ' | A |
| Among its starlit pools | B |
| When dark the woodland lies asleep | C |
| And dusk its water cools | B |
| The fireflies round its bank of ferns | D |
| Hang will o' wisps for lamps | E |
| Where in a place no eye discerns | D |
| Enchantment's host encamps | D |
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| The bats above it go and come | F |
| In reeling rigadoons | D |
| While Elfland beats a beetle drum | F |
| Or cricket fiddle tunes | D |
| And in and out and all about | G |
| The pixy people dance | D |
| To katydid song and green frog gong | H |
| That hold the woods in trance | D |
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| The moon looks listening through its trees | D |
| As if to hear its calls | D |
| Or with long arms of light to seize | D |
| Its twinkling waterfalls | D |
| With Witchcraft who a foam white hand | I |
| Its glimmering banks between | J |
| Beckons from sand to riffled sand | I |
| To something far unseen | J |
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| A ghost that leans beside it still | K |
| The phantom of a boy | L |
| Who followed once its wildwood will | K |
| With barefoot troops of joy | L |
| The soul of him who yearns afar | M |
| To see in dusk and dew | N |
| If still it dances with the star | M |
| That once his boyhood knew | N |
Madison Julius Cawein
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