The Old Farm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBC DEFED GHGHG IJIJI FKFKF IIIII LMLML NONON PQPQA IIIII RLRLR SRSRS ITITI RURVW UFUFUUDormered and verandaed cool | A |
Locust girdled on the hill | B |
Stained with weather wear and dull | C |
Streak'd with lichens every sill | B |
Thresholding the beautiful | C |
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I can see it standing there | D |
Brown above the woodland deep | E |
Wrapped in lights of lavender | F |
By the warm wind rocked asleep | E |
Violet shadows everywhere | D |
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I remember how the Spring | G |
Liberal lapped bewildered its | H |
Acred orchards murmuring | G |
Kissed to blossom budded bits | H |
Where the wood thrush came to sing | G |
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Barefoot Spring at first who trod | I |
Like a beggermaid adown | J |
The wet woodland where the god | I |
With the bright sun for a crown | J |
And the firmament for rod | I |
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Met her clothed her wedded her | F |
Her Cophetua when lo | K |
All the hill one breathing blur | F |
Burst in beauty gleam and glow | K |
Blent with pearl and lavender | F |
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Seckel blackheart palpitant | I |
Rained their bleaching strays and white | I |
Snowed the damson bent aslant | I |
Rambow tree and romanite | I |
Seemed beneath deep drifts to pant | I |
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And it stood there brown and gray | L |
In the bee boom and the bloom | M |
In the shadow and the ray | L |
In the passion and perfume | M |
Grave as age among the gay | L |
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Wild with laughter romped the clear | N |
Boyish voices round its walls | O |
Rare wild roses were the dear | N |
Girlish faces in its halls | O |
Music haunted all the year | N |
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Far before it meadows full | P |
Of green pennyroyal sank | Q |
Clover dotted as with wool | P |
Here and there with now a bank | Q |
Hot of color and the cool | A |
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Dark blue shadows unconfined | I |
Of the clouds rolled overhead | I |
Clouds from which the summer wind | I |
Blew with rain and freshly shed | I |
Dew upon the flowerkind | I |
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Where through mint and gypsy lily | R |
Runs the rocky brook away | L |
Musical among the hilly | R |
Solitudes its flashing spray | L |
Sunlight dashed or forest stilly | R |
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Buried in deep sassafras | S |
Memory follows up the hill | R |
Still some cowbell's mellow brass | S |
Where the ruined water mill | R |
Looms half hid in cane and grass | S |
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Oh the farmhouse is it set | I |
On the hilltop still 'mid musk | T |
Of the meads where violet | I |
Deepens all the dreaming dusk | T |
And the locust trees hang wet | I |
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While the sunset far and low | R |
On its westward windows dashes | U |
Primrose or pomegranate glow | R |
And above in glimmering splashes | V |
Lilac stars the heavens sow | W |
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Sleeps it still among its roses | U |
Oldtime roses while the choir | F |
Of the lonesome insects dozes | U |
And the white moon drifting higher | F |
O'er its mossy roof reposes | U |
Sleeps it still among its roses | U |
Madison Julius Cawein
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