The Wood Witch Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGGHHAAIIJJ KKLLLMMNNOOPPQQQRRSS TTT

There is a woodland witch who liesA
With bloom bright limbs and beam bright eyesA
Among the water flags that rankB
The slow brook's heron haunted bankB
The dragon flies brass bright and blueC
Are signs she works her sorcery throughC
Weird wizard characters she weavesD
Her spells by under forest leavesD
These wait her word like imps uponE
The gray flag pods their wings of lawnF
And gauze their bodies gleaming greenG
While o'er the wet sand left betweenG
The running water and the stillH
In pansy hues and daffodilH
The fancies that she doth deviseA
Take on the forms of butterfliesA
Rich coloured And 'tis she you hearI
Whose sleepy rune hummed in the earI
Of silence bees and beetles purrJ
And the dry droning locusts whirrJ
Till where the wood is very loneK
Vague monotone meets monotoneK
And slumber is begot and bornL
A faery child beneath the thornL
There is no mortal who may scornL
The witchery she spreads aroundM
Her din demesne wherein is boundM
The beauty of abandoned timeN
As some sweet thought 'twixt rhyme and rhymeN
And through her spells you shall beholdO
The blue turn gray the gray turn goldO
Of hollow heaven and the brownP
Of twilight vistas twinkled downP
With fireflies and in the gloomQ
Feel the cool vowels of perfumeQ
Slow syllabled of weed and bloomQ
But in the night at languid restR
When like a spirit's naked breastR
The moon slips from a silver mistS
With star bound brow and star wreathed wristS
If you should see her rise and waveT
You welcome ah what thing could saveT
You then for evermore her slaveT

Madison Julius Cawein



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