The Thorn Tree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFFGGHHIIJJKK LLIIIII| The night is sad with silver and the day is glad with gold | A |
| And the woodland silence listens to a legend never old | A |
| Of the Lady of the Fountain whom the faery people know | B |
| With her limbs of samite whiteness and her hair of golden glow | B |
| Whom the boyish South Wind seeks for and the girlish stepping Rain | C |
| Whom the sleepy leaves still whisper men shall never see again | D |
| She whose Vivien charms were mistress of the magic Merlin knew | E |
| That could change the dew to glowworms and the glowworms into dew | E |
| There's a thorn tree in the forest and the faeries know the tree | F |
| With its branches gnarled and wrinkled as a face with sorcery | F |
| But the Maytime brings it clusters of a rainy fragrant white | G |
| Like the bloom bright brows of beauty or a hand of lifted light | G |
| And all day the silence whispers to the sun ray of the morn | H |
| How the bloom is lovely Vivien and how Merlin is the thorn | H |
| How she won the doting wizard with her naked loveliness | I |
| Till he told her daemon secrets that must make his magic less | I |
| How she charmed him and enchanted in the thorn tree's thorns to lie | J |
| Forever with his passion that should never dim or die | J |
| And with wicked laughter looking on this thing which she had done | K |
| Like a visible aroma lingered sparkling in the sun | K |
| How she stooped to kiss the pathos of an elf lock of his beard | L |
| In a mockery of parting and mock pity of his weird | L |
| But her magic had forgotten that'who bends to give a kiss | I |
| Will but bring the curse upon them of the person whose it is' | I |
| So the silence tells the secret And at night the faeries see | I |
| How the tossing bloom is Vivien who is struggling to be free | I |
| In the thorny arms of Merlin who forever is the tree | I |
Madison Julius Cawein
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