The Old Spring Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDEEEE A FFGHIJIJJ A KKLMEEEEE| I | A |
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| Under rocks whereon the rose | B |
| Like a streak of morning glows | B |
| Where the azure throated newt | C |
| Drowses on the twisted root | C |
| And the brown bees humming homeward | D |
| Stop to suck the honeydew | E |
| Fern and leaf hid gleaming gloamward | E |
| Drips the wildwood spring I knew | E |
| Drips the spring my boyhood knew | E |
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| II | A |
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| Myrrh and music everywhere | F |
| Haunt its cascades like the hair | F |
| That a Naiad tosses cool | G |
| Swimming strangely beautiful | H |
| With white fragrance for her bosom | I |
| And her mouth a breath of song | J |
| Under leaf and branch and blossom | I |
| Flows the woodland spring along | J |
| Sparkling singing flows along | J |
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| III | A |
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| Still the wet wan mornings touch | K |
| Its gray rocks perhaps and such | K |
| Slender stars as dusk may have | L |
| Pierce the rose that roofs its wave | M |
| Still the thrush may call at noontide | E |
| And the whippoorwill at night | E |
| Nevermore by sun or moontide | E |
| Shall I see it gliding white | E |
| Falling flowing wild and white | E |
Madison Julius Cawein
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