The Old Farm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBC DEFED GHGHG IJIJI FKFKF IIIII LMLML NONON PQPQA IIIII RLRLR SRSRS ITITI RURVW UFUFUU

Dormered and verandaed coolA
Locust girdled on the hillB
Stained with weather wear and dullC
Streak'd with lichens every sillB
Thresholding the beautifulC
-
I can see it standing thereD
Brown above the woodland deepE
Wrapped in lights of lavenderF
By the warm wind rocked asleepE
Violet shadows everywhereD
-
I remember how the SpringG
Liberal lapped bewildered itsH
Acred orchards murmuringG
Kissed to blossom budded bitsH
Where the wood thrush came to singG
-
Barefoot Spring at first who trodI
Like a beggermaid adownJ
The wet woodland where the godI
With the bright sun for a crownJ
And the firmament for rodI
-
Met her clothed her wedded herF
Her Cophetua when loK
All the hill one breathing blurF
Burst in beauty gleam and glowK
Blent with pearl and lavenderF
-
Seckel blackheart palpitantI
Rained their bleaching strays and whiteI
Snowed the damson bent aslantI
Rambow tree and romaniteI
Seemed beneath deep drifts to pantI
-
And it stood there brown and grayL
In the bee boom and the bloomM
In the shadow and the rayL
In the passion and perfumeM
Grave as age among the gayL
-
Wild with laughter romped the clearN
Boyish voices round its wallsO
Rare wild roses were the dearN
Girlish faces in its hallsO
Music haunted all the yearN
-
Far before it meadows fullP
Of green pennyroyal sankQ
Clover dotted as with woolP
Here and there with now a bankQ
Hot of color and the coolA
-
Dark blue shadows unconfinedI
Of the clouds rolled overheadI
Clouds from which the summer windI
Blew with rain and freshly shedI
Dew upon the flowerkindI
-
Where through mint and gypsy lilyR
Runs the rocky brook awayL
Musical among the hillyR
Solitudes its flashing sprayL
Sunlight dashed or forest stillyR
-
Buried in deep sassafrasS
Memory follows up the hillR
Still some cowbell's mellow brassS
Where the ruined water millR
Looms half hid in cane and grassS
-
Oh the farmhouse is it setI
On the hilltop still 'mid muskT
Of the meads where violetI
Deepens all the dreaming duskT
And the locust trees hang wetI
-
While the sunset far and lowR
On its westward windows dashesU
Primrose or pomegranate glowR
And above in glimmering splashesV
Lilac stars the heavens sowW
-
Sleeps it still among its rosesU
Oldtime roses while the choirF
Of the lonesome insects dozesU
And the white moon drifting higherF
O'er its mossy roof reposesU
Sleeps it still among its rosesU

Madison Julius Cawein



Rate:
(1)



Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme

Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation


Write your comment about The Old Farm poem by Madison Julius Cawein


 

Recent Interactions*

This poem was read 8 times,

This poem was added to the favorite list by 0 members,

This poem was voted by 0 members.

(* Interactions only in the last 7 days)

New Poems

Popular Poets