To The Leaf-cricket Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AAAABB CCDDEE F DDGGGG DDBBHH F DDAABB IIJJKK L MMAANN AAAANN

Small twilight singerA
Of dew and mist thou ghost gray gossamer wingerA
Of dusk's dim glimmerA
How cool thy note sounds how thy wings of shimmerA
Vibrate soft sighingB
Meseems for Summer that is dead or dyingB
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I stand and listenC
And at thy song the garden beds that glistenC
With rose and lilyD
Seem touched with sadness and the tuberose chillyD
Breathing around its cold and colorless breathE
Fills the pale evening with wan hints of deathE
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IIF
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I see thee quaintlyD
Beneath the leaf thy shell shaped winglets faintlyD
As thin as spangleG
Of cobwebbed rain held up at airy angleG
I hear thy tinkleG
Thy fairy notes the silvery stillness sprinkleG
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Investing whollyD
The moonlight with divinest melancholyD
Until in seemingB
I see the Spirit of the Summer dreamingB
Amid her ripened orchards apple strewnH
Her great grave eyes fixed on the harvest moonH
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IIIF
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As dew drops beadyD
As mist minute thy notes ring low and reedyD
The vaguest vaporA
Of melody now near now like some taperA
Of sound far fadingB
Thou will o' wisp of music aye evadingB
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Among the bowersI
The fog washed stalks of Autumn's weeds and flowersI
By hill and hollowJ
I hear thy murmur and in vain I followJ
Thou jack o' lantern voice thou elfin cryK
Thou dirge that tellest Beauty she must dieK
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IVL
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And when the franticM
Wild winds of Autumn with the dead leaves anticM
And walnuts scatterA
The mire of lanes and dropping acorns patterA
In grove and forestN
Like some frail grief with the rude blast thou warrestN
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Sending thy slenderA
Far cry against the gale that rough untenderA
Untouched of sorrowA
Sweeps thee aside where haply I to morrowA
Shall find thee lying tiny cold and crushedN
Thy weak wings folded and thy music hushedN

Madison Julius Cawein



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