The Tree-toad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCCDEED A FGFGGFEEF A HIHIIHJJH KIKIIKEEKI | 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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