Under Arcturus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBC DEFE AGHGH IJIJ AKAK LMLM ANKNK OBPB BKBK BLBL KQKQ RSTU VWVWI | A |
I BELT the morn with ribboned mist | B |
With baldricked blue I gird the noon | C |
And dusk with purple crimson kissed | B |
White buckled with the hunter's moon | C |
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These follow me the Season says | D |
Mine is the frost pale hand that packs | E |
Their scrips and speeds them on their ways | F |
With gypsy gold that weighs their backs | E |
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II | A |
A daybreak horn the Autumn blows | G |
As with a sun tanned hand he parts | H |
Wet boughs whereon the berry glows | G |
And at his feet the red fox starts | H |
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The leafy leash that holds his hounds | I |
Is loosed and all the noonday hush | J |
Is startled and the hillside sounds | I |
Behind the fox's bounding brush | J |
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When red dusk makes the western sky | A |
A fire lit window through the firs | K |
He stoops to see the red fox die | A |
Among the chestnut's broken burrs | K |
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Then fanfaree and fanfaree | L |
His bugle sounds the world below | M |
Grows hushed to hear and two or three | L |
Soft stars dream through the afterglow | M |
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III | A |
Like some black host the shadows fall | N |
And blackness camps among the trees | K |
Each wildwood road a Goblin Hall | N |
Grows populous with mysteries | K |
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Night comes with brows of ragged storm | O |
And limbs of writhen cloud and mist | B |
The rain wind hangs upon his arm | P |
Like some wild girl who cries unkissed | B |
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By his gaunt hands the leaves are shed | B |
In headlong troops and nightmare herds | K |
And like a witch who calls the dead | B |
The hill stream whirls with foaming words | K |
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Then all is sudden silence and | B |
Dark fear like his who cannot see | L |
Yet hears lost in a haunted land | B |
Death rattling on a gallow's tree | L |
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IV | - |
The days approach again the days | K |
Whose mantles stream whose sandals drag | Q |
When in the haze by puddled ways | K |
The gnarled thorn seems a crooked hag | Q |
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When rotting orchards reek with rain | R |
And woodlands crumble leaf and log | S |
And in the drizzling yard again | T |
The gourd is tagged with points of fog | U |
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Now let me seat my soul among | V |
The woods' dim dreams and come in touch | W |
With melancholy sad of tongue | V |
And sweet who says so much so much | W |
Madison Julius Cawein
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