The Rock Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABAABA CCADDAD EEFGGFG HHIJJIJ KFLAALE| Here at its base in dingled deeps | A |
| Of spice bush where the ivy creeps | A |
| The cold spring scoops its hollow | B |
| And there three mossy stepping stones | A |
| Make ripple murmurs undertones | A |
| Of foam that blend and follow | B |
| With voices of the wood that drones | A |
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| The quail pipes here when noons are hot | C |
| And here in coolness sunlight shot | C |
| Beneath a roof of briers | A |
| The red fox skulks at close of day | D |
| And here at night the shadows gray | D |
| Stand like FRANCISCAN friars | A |
| With moonbeam beads whereon they pray | D |
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| Here yawns the ground hog's dark dug hole | E |
| And there the tunnel of the mole | E |
| Heaves under weed and flower | F |
| A sandy pit fall here and there | G |
| The ant lion digs and lies a lair | G |
| And here for sun and shower | F |
| The spider weaves a silvery snare | G |
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| The poison oak's rank tendrils twine | H |
| The rock's south side the trumpet vine | H |
| With crimson bugles sprinkled | I |
| Makes green its eastern side the west | J |
| Is rough with lichens and gray pressed | J |
| Into an angle wrinkled | I |
| The hornets hang an oblong nest | J |
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| The north is hid from sun and star | K |
| And here like an Inquisitor | F |
| Of Fa ry Inquisition | L |
| That roots out Elf land heresy | A |
| Deep in the rock with mystery | A |
| Cowled for his grave commission | L |
| The Owl sits magisterially | E |
Madison Julius Cawein
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