The Vale Of Tempe - The Hylas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAAACC DEDEAFAFAFGGF H IIAAAAAA AJKJKAKJAJALLMMNCNC I OAAAPPOOOAAAAA QQQQAARR R BBJJSSTTAAUUQSQ J AAUSVQWBQQBBXBXYYZQQ QA2B2AAAAC2C2SSYYA2B 2D2D2E2E2QQD2AD2AAAQ AAQQYYQQAAAAQAAQAQF2 QJAAD2G2D2H2H2I Heard the hylas in the bottomlands | A |
Piping a reed note in the praise of Spring | B |
The South wind brought the music on its wing | B |
As 't were a hundred strands | A |
Of guttural gold smitten of elfin hands | A |
Or of sonorous silver struck by bands | A |
Anviled within the earth | C |
Of laboring gnomes shaping some gem of worth | C |
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Sounds that seemed to bid | D |
The wildflowers wake | E |
Unclose each dewy lid | D |
And starrily shake | E |
Sleep from their airy eyes | A |
Beneath the loam | F |
And robed in d dal dyes | A |
Frail as the fluttering foam | F |
In countless myriads rise | A |
And in my city home | F |
I too who heard | G |
Their reedy word | G |
Awoke and with my soul went forth to roam | F |
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II | H |
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And under glimpses of the cloud white sky | I |
My soul and I | I |
Beheld her seated Spring among the woods | A |
With bright attendants | A |
Two radiant maidens | A |
The Wind and Sun one robed in cadence | A |
And one in white resplendence | A |
Working wild wonders with the solitudes | A |
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And thus it was | A |
So it seemed to me | J |
Where she sat apart | K |
Fondling a bee | J |
By some strange art | K |
As in a glass | A |
Down in her heart | K |
My eyes could see | J |
What would come to pass | A |
How in each tree | J |
Each blade of grass | A |
Dead though it seemed | L |
Still lived and dreamed | L |
Life and perfume | M |
Color and bloom | M |
Housed from the North | N |
Like golden mirth | C |
That she with jubilation would bring forth | N |
Astonishing Earth | C |
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III | I |
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And thus it was I knew | O |
That though the trees were barren of all buds | A |
And all the woods | A |
Of blossoms now still still their hoods | A |
And heads of blue and gold | P |
And pink and pearl lay hidden in the mould | P |
And in a day or two | O |
When Spring's fair feet came twinkling through | O |
The trees their gold and blue | O |
And pearl and pink in countless bands would rise | A |
Invading all these ways | A |
With loveliness and to the skies | A |
In radiant rapture raise | A |
The fragile sweetness of a thousand eyes | A |
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When every foot of soil would boast | Q |
An ambuscade | Q |
Of blossoms each green rood parade | Q |
Its flowery host | Q |
And every acre of the woods | A |
With little bird like beaks of leaves and buds | A |
Brag of its beauty making bankrupts of | R |
Our hearts of praise and beggar us of love | R |
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IV | R |
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Here when the snow was flying | B |
And barren boughs were sighing | B |
In icy January | J |
I stood like some gray tree lonely and solitary | J |
Now every spine and splinter | S |
Of wood washed clean of winter | S |
By hill and canyon | T |
Makes of itself an intimate companion | T |
A confidant who whispers me the dreams | A |
That haunt its heart and clothe it as with gleams | A |
And lonely now no more | U |
I walk the mossy floor | U |
Of woodlands where each bourgeoning leaf is matched | Q |
Mated with music triumphed o'er | S |
Of building love and nestling song just hatched | Q |
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V | J |
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Washed of the early rains | A |
And rosed with ruddy stains | A |
The boughs and branches now make ready for | U |
Their raiment green of leaves and musk and myrrh | S |
As if to greet her pomp | V |
The heralds of her state | Q |
As 't were with many a silvery trump | W |
The birds are singing singing | B |
And all the world's elate | Q |
As o'er the hills as 't were from Heaven's gate | Q |
With garments dewy clinging | B |
Comes Spring around whose way the budded woods are ringing | B |
With redbird and with bluebird and with thrush | X |
While overhead on happy wings is swinging | B |
The swallow through the heaven's azure hush | X |
And wren and sparrow vireo and crow | Y |
Are busy with their nests or high or low | Y |
In every tree it seems and every bush | Z |
The loamy odor of the turfy heat | Q |
Breathed warm from every field and wood retreat | Q |
Is as if spirits passed on flowery feet | Q |
That indescribable | A2 |
Aroma of the woods one knows so well | B2 |
Reminding one of sylvan presences | A |
Clad on with lichen and with moss | A |
That haunt and trail across | A |
The woods' dim dales and dells their airy essences | A |
Of racy nard and musk | C2 |
Rapping at gummy husk | C2 |
And honeyed sheath of every leaf and flower | S |
That open to their knock each at the appointed hour | S |
And lo | Y |
Where'er they go | Y |
Behold a miracle | A2 |
Too beautiful to tell | B2 |
Where late the woods were bare | D2 |
The red bud shakes its hair | D2 |
Of flowering flame the dogwood and the haw | E2 |
Dazzle with pearl the shaw | E2 |
And the broad maple crimsons sunset red | Q |
Through firmaments of forest overhead | Q |
And of its boughs the wild crab makes a lair | D2 |
A rosy cloud of blossoms for the bees | A |
Bewildered there | D2 |
To revel in lulling itself with these | A |
And in the whispering woods | A |
The wildflower multitudes | A |
Rise star and bell and bugle all amort | Q |
To everything save their own loveliness | A |
And the soft wind's caress | A |
The wind that tip toes through them liverwort | Q |
Spring beauty windflower and the bleedingheart | Q |
And bloodroot holding low | Y |
Its cups of stainless snow | Y |
Sorrel and trillturn and the twin leaf too | Q |
Twinkling like stars through dew | Q |
And patches as it were of saffron skies | A |
Ranunculus and golden eyes | A |
Of adder's tongue and mines | A |
It seems of grottoed gold the poppy celandines | A |
And sapphire spilled | Q |
Bluets and violets | A |
Dark pansy violets and columbines | A |
With rainy radiance filled | Q |
And many more whose names my mind forgets | A |
But not my heart | Q |
The Nations of the Flowers making gay | F2 |
In every place and part | Q |
With pomp and pageantry | J |
Of absolute Beauty all the worlds of woods | A |
In congregated multitudes | A |
Assembled where | D2 |
Unearthly colors all the oaks put on | G2 |
Velvet and silk and vair | D2 |
Vermeil and mauve and fawn | H2 |
Dim and auroral as the hues of dawn | H2 |
Madison Julius Cawein
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