Vine And Sycamore Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED F GHGHIJIJ F IKIKLHLH M ENENEOEO M PQPRSTST M ENENEEEE M EUEVNWNW| Here where a tree and its wild liana | A |
| Leaning over the streamlet grow | B |
| Once a nymph like the moon'd Diana | A |
| Sat in the ages long ago | B |
| Sat with a mortal with whom she had mated | C |
| Sat and laughed with a mortal youth | D |
| Ere he of the forest the god who hated | E |
| Saw and changed to a form uncouth | D |
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| II | F |
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| Once in the woods she had heard a shepherd | G |
| Heard a reed in a golden glade | H |
| Followed and clad in the skin of a leopard | G |
| Found him fluting within the shade | H |
| Found him sitting with bare brown shoulder | I |
| Lithe and strong as a sapling oak | J |
| And leaning over a mossy boulder | I |
| Love in her wildwood heart awoke | J |
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| III | F |
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| White she was as a dogwood flower | I |
| Pinkly white as a wild crab bloom | K |
| Sweetly white as a hawtree bower | I |
| Full of dew and the May's perfume | K |
| He who saw her above him burning | L |
| Beautiful naked in light arrayed | H |
| Deemed her Diana and from her turning | L |
| Leapt to his feet and fled afraid | H |
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| IV | M |
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| Far she followed and called and pleaded | E |
| Ever he fled with never a look | N |
| Fled till he came to this spot deep reeded | E |
| Came to the bank of this forest brook | N |
| Here for a moment he stopped and listened | E |
| Heard in her voice her heart's despair | O |
| Saw in her eyes the love that glistened | E |
| Sank on her bosom and rested there | O |
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| V | M |
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| Close to her beauty she strained and pressed him | P |
| Held and bound him with kiss on kiss | Q |
| Soft with her arms and her lips caressed him | P |
| Sweeter of touch than a blossom is | R |
| Spoke to his heart and with sweet persuasion | S |
| Mastered his soul till its fear was flown | T |
| Spoke to his soul till its mortal evasion | S |
| Vanished and body and soul were her own | T |
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| VI | M |
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| Many a day had they met and mated | E |
| Many a day by this woodland brook | N |
| When he of the forest the god who hated | E |
| Came on their love and changed with a look | N |
| There on the shore while they joyed and jested | E |
| He in the shadows unseen espied | E |
| Her like the goddess Diana breasted | E |
| Him like Endymion by her side | E |
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| VII | M |
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| Lo at a word at a sign their folded | E |
| Limbs and bodies assumed new form | U |
| Hers to the shape of a tree were molded | E |
| His to a vine with surrounding arm | V |
| So they stand with their limbs enlacing | N |
| Nymph and mortal upon this shore | W |
| He forever a vine embracing | N |
| Her a silvery sycamore | W |
Madison Julius Cawein
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