The Tree-toad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCCDEED A FGFGGFEEF A HIHIIHJJH KIKIIKEEK| I | A |
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| Secluded solitary on some underbough | B |
| Or cradled in a leaf 'mid glimmering light | C |
| Like Puck thou crouchest Haply watching how | D |
| The slow toadstool comes bulging moony white | C |
| Through loosening loam or how against the night | C |
| The glowworm gathers silver to endow | D |
| The darkness with or how the dew conspires | E |
| To hang at dusk with lamps of chilly fires | E |
| Each blade that shrivels now | D |
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| II | A |
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| O vague confederate of the whippoorwill | F |
| Of owl and cricket and the katydid | G |
| Thou gatherest up the silence in one shrill | F |
| Vibrating note and send'st it where half hid | G |
| In cedars twilight sleeps each azure lid | G |
| Drooping a line of golden eyeball still | F |
| Afar yet near I hear thy dewy voice | E |
| Within the Garden of the Hours apoise | E |
| On dusk's deep daffodil | F |
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| III | A |
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| Minstrel of moisture silent when high noon | H |
| Shows her tanned face among the thirsting clover | I |
| And parching meadows thy tenebrious tune | H |
| Wakes with the dew or when the rain is over | I |
| Thou troubadour of wetness and damp lover | I |
| Of all cool things admitted comrade boon | H |
| Of twilight's hush and little intimate | J |
| Of eve's first fluttering star and delicate | J |
| Round rim of rainy moon | H |
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| IV | - |
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| Art trumpeter of Dwarfland does thy horn | K |
| Inform the gnomes and goblins of the hour | I |
| When they may gambol under haw and thorn | K |
| Straddling each winking web and twinkling flower | I |
| Or bell ringer of Elfland whose tall tower | I |
| The liriodendron is from whence is borne | K |
| The elfin music of thy bell's deep bass | E |
| To summon Faeries to their starlit maze | E |
| To summon them or warn | K |
Madison Julius Cawein
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