To The Leaf-cricket Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABB CCDDEE F DDGGGG DDBBHH F DDAABB IIJJKK L MMAANN AAAANN| Small twilight singer | A |
| Of dew and mist thou ghost gray gossamer winger | A |
| Of dusk's dim glimmer | A |
| How cool thy note sounds how thy wings of shimmer | A |
| Vibrate soft sighing | B |
| Meseems for Summer that is dead or dying | B |
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| I stand and listen | C |
| And at thy song the garden beds that glisten | C |
| With rose and lily | D |
| Seem touched with sadness and the tuberose chilly | D |
| Breathing around its cold and colorless breath | E |
| Fills the pale evening with wan hints of death | E |
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| II | F |
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| I see thee quaintly | D |
| Beneath the leaf thy shell shaped winglets faintly | D |
| As thin as spangle | G |
| Of cobwebbed rain held up at airy angle | G |
| I hear thy tinkle | G |
| Thy fairy notes the silvery stillness sprinkle | G |
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| Investing wholly | D |
| The moonlight with divinest melancholy | D |
| Until in seeming | B |
| I see the Spirit of the Summer dreaming | B |
| Amid her ripened orchards apple strewn | H |
| Her great grave eyes fixed on the harvest moon | H |
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| III | F |
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| As dew drops beady | D |
| As mist minute thy notes ring low and reedy | D |
| The vaguest vapor | A |
| Of melody now near now like some taper | A |
| Of sound far fading | B |
| Thou will o' wisp of music aye evading | B |
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| Among the bowers | I |
| The fog washed stalks of Autumn's weeds and flowers | I |
| By hill and hollow | J |
| I hear thy murmur and in vain I follow | J |
| Thou jack o' lantern voice thou elfin cry | K |
| Thou dirge that tellest Beauty she must die | K |
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| IV | L |
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| And when the frantic | M |
| Wild winds of Autumn with the dead leaves antic | M |
| And walnuts scatter | A |
| The mire of lanes and dropping acorns patter | A |
| In grove and forest | N |
| Like some frail grief with the rude blast thou warrest | N |
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| Sending thy slender | A |
| Far cry against the gale that rough untender | A |
| Untouched of sorrow | A |
| Sweeps thee aside where haply I to morrow | A |
| Shall find thee lying tiny cold and crushed | N |
| Thy weak wings folded and thy music hushed | N |
Madison Julius Cawein
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