The Quest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBBCD B A ECEECF E A AGAAGH A F BBABBIIB| I | A |
| - | |
| First I asked the honeybee | B |
| Busy in the balmy bowers | C |
| Saying 'Sweetheart tell it me | B |
| Have you seen her honeybee | B |
| She is cousin to the flowers | C |
| All the sweetness of the south | D |
| In her wild rose face and mouth ' | - |
| But the bee passed silently | B |
| - | |
| II | A |
| - | |
| Then I asked the forest bird | E |
| Warbling by the woodland waters | C |
| Saying 'Dearest have you heard | E |
| Have you heard her forest bird | E |
| She is one of music's daughters | C |
| Never song so sweet by half | F |
| As the music of her laugh ' | - |
| But the bird said not a word | E |
| - | |
| III | A |
| - | |
| Next I asked the evening sky | A |
| Hanging out its lamps of fire | G |
| Saying 'Loved one passed she by | A |
| Tell me tell me evening sky | A |
| She the star of my desire | G |
| Sister whom the Pleiads lost | H |
| And my soul's high pentecost ' | - |
| But the sky made no reply | A |
| - | |
| IV | F |
| - | |
| Where is she ah where is she | B |
| She to whom both love and duty | B |
| Bind me yea immortally | A |
| Where is she ah where is she | B |
| Symbol of the Earth Soul's beauty | B |
| I have lost her Help my heart | I |
| Find her her who is a part | I |
| Of the pagan soul of me | B |
Madison Julius Cawein
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