Under The Rose Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE AGHG IJBJ AKLK MNON BPQP ARSR ATLT BUVU WXYX ZA2B2A2 AC2D2C2He told a story to her | A |
A story old yet new | B |
And was it of the Fa ry Folk | C |
That dance along the dew | B |
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The night was hung with silence | D |
As a room is hung with cloth | E |
And soundless through the rose sweet hush | F |
Swooned dim the down white moth | E |
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Along the east a shimmer | A |
A tenuous breath of flame | G |
From which as from a bath of light | H |
Nymph like the girl moon came | G |
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And pendent in the purple | I |
Of heaven like fireflies | J |
Bubbles of gold the great stars blew | B |
From windows of the skies | J |
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He told a story to her | A |
A story full of dreams | K |
And was it of the Elfin things | L |
That haunt the thin moonbeams | K |
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Upon the hill a thorn tree | M |
Crooked and gnarled and gray | N |
Against the moon seemed some crutch'd hag | O |
Dragging a child away | N |
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And in the vale a runnel | B |
That dripped from shelf to shelf | P |
Seemed in the night a woodland witch | Q |
Who muttered to herself | P |
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Along the land a zephyr | A |
Whose breath was wild perfume | R |
That seemed a sorceress who wove | S |
Sweet spells of beam and bloom | R |
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He told a story to her | A |
A story young yet old | T |
And was it of the mystic things | L |
Men's eyes shall ne'er behold | T |
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They heard the dew drip faintly | B |
From out the green cupped leaf | U |
They heard the petals of the rose | V |
Unfolding from their sheaf | U |
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They saw the wind light footing | W |
The waters into sheen | X |
They saw the starlight kiss to sleep | Y |
The blossoms on the green | X |
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They heard and saw these wonders | Z |
These things they saw and heard | A2 |
And other things within the heart | B2 |
For which there is no word | A2 |
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He told a story to her | A |
The story men call Love | C2 |
Whose echoes fill the ages past | D2 |
And the world ne'er tires of | C2 |
Madison Julius Cawein
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