The Wild Iris Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII JDJDKK LMLMMM NOLOLL| That day we wandered 'mid the hills so lone | A |
| Clouds are not lonelier the forest lay | B |
| In emerald darkness round us Many a stone | A |
| And gnarly root gray mossed made wild our way | B |
| And many a bird the glimmering light along | C |
| Showered the golden bubbles of its song | C |
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| Then in the valley where the brook went by | D |
| Silvering the ledges that it rippled from | E |
| An isolated slip of fallen sky | D |
| Epitomizing heaven in its sum | E |
| An iris bloomed blue as if flower disguised | F |
| The gaze of Spring had there materialized | F |
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| I have forgotten many things since then | G |
| Much beauty and much happiness and grief | H |
| And toiled and dreamed among my fellow men | G |
| Rejoicing in the knowledge life is brief | H |
| ''Tis winter now ' so says each barren bough | I |
| And face and hair proclaim 'tis winter now | I |
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| I would forget the gladness of that spring | J |
| I would forget that day when she and I | D |
| Between the bird song and the blossoming | J |
| Went hand in hand beneath the soft May sky | D |
| Much is forgotten yea and yet and yet | K |
| The things we would we never can forget | K |
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| Nor I how May then minted treasuries | L |
| Of crowfoot gold and molded out of light | M |
| The sorrel's cups whose elfin chalices | L |
| Of limpid spar were streaked with rosy white | M |
| Nor all the stars of twinkling spiderwort | M |
| And mandrake moons with which her brows were girt | M |
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| But most of all yea it were well for me | N |
| Me and my heart that I forget that flower | O |
| The blue wild iris azure fleur de lis | L |
| That she and I together found that hour | O |
| Its recollection can but emphasize | L |
| The pain of loss remindful of her eyes | L |
Madison Julius Cawein
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