The Whippoorwill Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBCDEEEE A FFGCAAAHA A IIICJJJJJC| I | A |
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| Above lone woodland ways that led | B |
| To dells the stealthy twilights tread | B |
| The west was hot geranium red | B |
| And still and still | C |
| Along old lanes the locusts sow | D |
| With clustered pearls the Maytimes know | E |
| Deep in the crimson afterglow | E |
| We heard the homeward cattle low | E |
| And then the far off far off woe | E |
| Of 'whippoorwill ' of 'whippoorwill ' | - |
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| II | A |
| - | |
| Beneath the idle beechen boughs | F |
| We heard the far bells of the cows | F |
| Come slowly jangling towards the house | G |
| And still and still | C |
| Beyond the light that would not die | A |
| Out of the scarlet haunted sky | A |
| Beyond the evening star's white eye | A |
| Of glittering chalcedony | H |
| Drained out of dusk the plaintive cry | A |
| Of 'whippoorwill ' of 'whippoorwill ' | - |
| - | |
| III | A |
| - | |
| And in the city oft when swims | I |
| The pale moon o'er the smoke that dims | I |
| Its disc I dream of wildwood limbs | I |
| And still and still | C |
| I seem to hear where shadows grope | J |
| Mid ferns and flowers that dewdrops rope | J |
| Lost in faint deeps of heliotrope | J |
| Above the clover sweetened slope | J |
| Retreat despairing past all hope | J |
| The whippoorwill the whippoorwill | C |
Madison Julius Cawein
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