The Woodland Waterfall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBBA DDEFFEEG HHIJJIIH KKLMMLLK NNOEEPONQ QDPODDQ| Rock and root and fern and flower | A |
| They had led him for an hour | A |
| To the inmost forest where | B |
| In a hollow green with moss | C |
| That the deep ferns trailed across | C |
| Fell a fall a presence fair | B |
| Syllabling to the air | B |
| Charming with cool sounds the bower | A |
| - | |
| It was she he used to know | D |
| In some land of Long Ago | D |
| Some far land of Yesterday | E |
| Where he listened to her words | F |
| And she lured him like the birds | F |
| To her lips and in his way | E |
| Danced a bubble or rainbow ray | E |
| Or a minnow's silvery bow | G |
| - | |
| Round him now her arms she flung | H |
| And as dripping there she clung | H |
| In her gaze of green and gold | I |
| He beheld a beauty gleam | J |
| And the shadow of a dream | J |
| That to no man hath been told | I |
| Like a Faery tale of old | I |
| Rise up glimmering ever young | H |
| - | |
| As his form to hers she drew | K |
| In his soul it seemed he knew | K |
| She was daughter of a king | L |
| Hate transformed into a fall | M |
| By a witch long held in thrall | M |
| And condemned to sigh and sing | L |
| Till some mortal find the ring | L |
| Charm that would the spell undo | K |
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| In a pool of spray and foam | N |
| With a crystal bubble dome | N |
| Suddenly he saw the charm | O |
| Newt like coiling there it lay | E |
| Could he seize it he would stay | E |
| Master all and white and warm | P |
| Clasp the princess in his arm | O |
| Lead her to her palace home | N |
| He would free her share her crown | Q |
| - | |
| So he thought and bare and brown | Q |
| Clove the water at a blow | D |
| But behold a mottled form | P |
| Like a newt's stretched out an arm | O |
| Crimson freckled from below | D |
| And before his heart could know | D |
| With wild laughter drew him down | Q |
Madison Julius Cawein
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