Under The Rose Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE AGHG IJBJ AKLK MNON BPQP ARSR ATLT BUVU WXYX ZA2B2A2 AC2D2C2| He 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 |
| - | |
| 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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