The Wood Anemone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MAMA NONO PQPQ RORS| The thorn tree waved a bough of May | A |
| And all its branches bent | B |
| To indicate the wildwood way | A |
| The Wind and Sunbeam went | B |
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| A wildrose here a wildrose there | C |
| Lifted appealing eyes | D |
| And looked the path they did not dare | C |
| Reveal in other wise | D |
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| Wild parsley tossed a plume of gold | E |
| And breathed so sweet a sigh | F |
| I guessed the way it never told | E |
| Which they had hastened by | F |
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| I traced the Beam so swift and white | G |
| In many a woodland place | H |
| By wildflower footprints of its flight | G |
| And gleamings of its grace | H |
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| I knew its joy had filled with song | I |
| The high heart of the bird | J |
| That rippled rippled all day long | I |
| In dells that hushed and heard | J |
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| I knew the Wind with flashing feet | K |
| Had charmed the brook withal | L |
| Who in its cascades did repeat | K |
| The music of that call | L |
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| All were in league to help me find | M |
| Or tell to me the way | A |
| Which now before me now behind | M |
| These two had gone in play | A |
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| I could not understand how these | N |
| Could hide so near to me | O |
| When by the whispering of the trees | N |
| I knew the wood could see | O |
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| Until all breathless with its joy | P |
| The Wind that could not rest | Q |
| Ran past me like a romping boy | P |
| And bade me look my best | Q |
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| And there I saw them clasped in bliss | R |
| Beneath an old beech tree | O |
| And here's the flower born of their kiss | R |
| This wild anemone | S |
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| 'Revels the Moon did light ' | - |
Madison Julius Cawein
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