The Screech-owl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBACDDA EFEGGGGGGG AGAGGAGAAA| When one by one the stars have trembled through | A |
| Eve's shadowy hues of violet rose and fire | B |
| As on a pansy bloom the limpid dew | A |
| Orbs its bright beads and one by one the choir | B |
| Of insects wakes on nodding bush and brier | B |
| Then through the woods where wandering winds pursue | A |
| A ceaseless whisper like an eery lyre | C |
| Struck in the Erl king's halls where ghosts and dreams | D |
| Hold revelry your goblin music screams | D |
| Shivering and strange as some strange thought come true | A |
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| Brown as the agaric that frills dead trees | E |
| Or those fantastic fungi of the woods | F |
| That crowd the dampness are you kin to these | E |
| In some mysterious way that still eludes | G |
| My fancy you who haunt the solitudes | G |
| With witch like wailings voice that seems to freeze | G |
| Out of the darkness like the scent which broods | G |
| Rank and rain sodden over autumn nooks | G |
| That to the mind might well suggest such looks | G |
| Ghastly and gray as pale clairvoyance sees | G |
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| You people night with weirdness lone and drear | A |
| Beneath the stars you cry your wizard runes | G |
| And in the haggard silence filled with fear | A |
| Your shuddering hoot seems some bleak grief that croons | G |
| Mockery and terror or beneath the moon's | G |
| Cloud hurrying glimmer to the startled ear | A |
| Crazed madman snatches of old perished tunes | G |
| The witless wit of outcast Edgar there | A |
| In the wild night or wan with all despair | A |
| The mirthless laughter of the Fool in Lear | A |
Madison Julius Cawein
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