The Wood Thrush Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABA CDEDE FGFGF FHFHF FFFFF IFIFI JKJKJ FFFFF LMLML NFNFN OFOFO HFHFH PQPQP RSRTR UBUBU| Bird with the voice of gold | A |
| Dropping wild bar on bar | B |
| To which the flowers unfold | A |
| Star upon gleaming star | B |
| Here in the forest old | A |
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| Bird with the note as clear | C |
| Cool as a bead of dew | D |
| To which the buds that hear | E |
| Open deep eyes of blue | D |
| Prick up a rosy ear | E |
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| Shut in your house of leaves | F |
| Bubbles of song you blow | G |
| Showered whence none perceives | F |
| Taking the wood below | G |
| Till its green bosom heaves | F |
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| Music of necromance | F |
| Circles of silvering sound | H |
| Wherein the fairies dance | F |
| Weaving an elfin round | H |
| Till the whole wood's a trance | F |
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| Till with the soul one hears | F |
| Footsteps of mythic things | F |
| Fauns with their pointed ears | F |
| Piping to haunted springs | F |
| And the white nymph that nears | F |
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| Dryads that rustle from | I |
| Trunks of unclosing trees | F |
| Glimmering shapes that come | I |
| Clothed on with bloom and breeze | F |
| Stealthily venturesome | I |
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| Spirits of light and air | J |
| Bodied of dawn and dusk | K |
| Peeping from blossoms there | J |
| Windows of dew and musk | K |
| Starry with firefly hair | J |
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| Moth winged and bee like forms | F |
| Rippling with flower tints | F |
| Waving their irised arms | F |
| Weaving of twilight glints | F |
| Wonders and wildwood charms | F |
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| Myths of the falling foam | L |
| Tossing their hair of spray | M |
| Driving the minnows home | L |
| Shepherding them the way | M |
| Safe from the water gnome | L |
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| Or from the streaming stone | N |
| Drawing with liquid strokes | F |
| Many a crystal tone | N |
| Music their joy evokes | F |
| Filling the forest lone | N |
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| Art thou a voice or bird | O |
| Lost in the world of trees | F |
| Or but a dream that's heard | O |
| Telling of mysteries | F |
| Saying an unknown word | O |
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| Art thou a sprite or sound | H |
| Blown on a flute of fays | F |
| Going thy wildwood round | H |
| Haunting the woodland ways | F |
| Making them holy ground | H |
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| Art thou a dream that Spring | P |
| Utters a hope her soul | Q |
| Voices whose pulses sing | P |
| On to some fairer goal | Q |
| Wild as a heart or wing | P |
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| Art thou the gold and green | R |
| Voice of the ancient wood | S |
| Syllabling soft between | R |
| Silence and solitude | T |
| All that it dreams unseen | R |
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| Bird like a wisp a gleam | U |
| Lo you have led me far | B |
| Would I were what you seem | U |
| Or what you really are | B |
| Bird with the voice of dream | U |
Madison Julius Cawein
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