The Willow Water Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABBCCD EEFFGGHHH IIJJAAK KCCLLMMM NOOPPOOQQQ CCKKRRC CONCCR SSCCGG| Deep in the hollow wood he found a way | A |
| Winding unto a water dim and gray | A |
| Grayer and dimmer than the break of day | A |
| By which a wildrose blossomed flower on flower | B |
| Leaning above its image hour on hour | B |
| Musing it seemed on its own loveliness | C |
| And longing with sweet longing to express | C |
| Some thought to its reflection | D |
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| Dropping now | E |
| Bee shaken pollen from th' o'erburdened bough | E |
| And now a petal delicate as a blush | F |
| It seemed to sigh or whisper to the hush | F |
| The dreams the myths and marvels it had seen | G |
| Tip toeing dimly through the woodland green | G |
| Faint shapes of fragrance forms like flowers that go | H |
| Footing the moss or shouldered with moonbeam glow | H |
| Through starlit waves oaring an arm of snow | H |
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| He sat him down and gazed into the pool | I |
| And as he gazed two petals silken cool | I |
| Fell soft as starbeams fall that arrow through | J |
| The fern hung trembling of a dropp of dew | J |
| And pearly placid on the water lay | A |
| Two curves of languid ruby where rose gray | A |
| The shadow of a willow dimmed the stream | K |
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| And suddenly he saw or did he dream | K |
| He saw the rose leaves change to rosy lips | C |
| A laughing crimson And with silvery hips | C |
| And eyes of luminous emerald full of sleep | L |
| And all the stillness of the under deep | L |
| The shadow of the tree become a girl | M |
| A shadowy girl who shook from many a curl | M |
| Faint tangled glimmerings of shell and pearl | M |
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| A girl who called him beckoned him to come | N |
| Waving a hand whiter than moonlit foam | O |
| And pointing minnowy fingered to her home | O |
| A bubble rainbow built beneath the wave | P |
| Dim domed and murmurous as the deep sea cave | P |
| Columned of coral and of grottoed foam | O |
| Where the pale mermaids never cease to comb | O |
| Their weed green hair with fingers crystal cold | Q |
| Sighing forever 'round the Sea King old | Q |
| Throned on his throne of shell and ribb d gold | Q |
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| Laughing she lured him lipped like some wild rose | C |
| Bidding him follow come to her repose | C |
| Upon her bosom and forever dream | K |
| Lulled by the wandering whisper of the stream | K |
| But him mortality weighed heavily on | R |
| And earthly love and sorrowful and wan | R |
| He shook his head motioning 'I cannot rise' | C |
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| But still he felt the magic of her eyes | C |
| Drawing him to her felt her hands of foam | O |
| Around his heart her lips that bade him come | N |
| With smiling witchery and with laughing looks | C |
| Like those that lured us in the fairy books | C |
| Our childhood dreamed on | R |
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| Then as suddenly | S |
| A wind it seemed from no where he could see | S |
| Wrinkled the water ruffled its smooth glass | C |
| And there again behold when it did pass | C |
| The rose leaves lay and shadow dimly seen | G |
| The willow's shadow and no thing between | G |
Madison Julius Cawein
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