Wasteland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB BCBDC EBEBB FGFGG HIHII JKJKK AAAAA BBBBB| Briar and fennel and chinquapin | A |
| And rue and ragweed everywhere | B |
| The field seemed sick as a soul with sin | A |
| Or dead of an old despair | B |
| Born of an ancient care | B |
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| The cricket's cry and the locust's whirr | B |
| And the note of a bird's distress | C |
| With the rasping sound of a grasshopp r | B |
| Clung to the loneliness | D |
| Like burrs to a ragged dress | C |
| - | |
| So sad the field so waste the ground | E |
| So curst with an old despair | B |
| A woodchuck's burrow a blind mole's mound | E |
| And a chipmunk's stony lair | B |
| Seemed more than it could bear | B |
| - | |
| So solemn too so more than sad | F |
| So droning lone with bees | G |
| I wondered what more could Nature add | F |
| To the sum of its miseries | G |
| And then I saw the trees | G |
| - | |
| Skeletons gaunt that gnarled the place | H |
| Twisted and torn they rose | I |
| The tortured bones of a perished race | H |
| Of monsters no mortal knows | I |
| They startled the mind's repose | I |
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| And a man stood there as still as moss | J |
| A lichen form that stared | K |
| And an old blind hound that seemed at loss | J |
| Forever around him fared | K |
| With a snarling fang half bared | K |
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| I looked at the man I saw him plain | A |
| Like a dead weed gray and wan | A |
| Or a breath of dust I looked again | A |
| And man and dog were gone | A |
| Like wisps o' the graying dawn | A |
| - | |
| Were they a part of the grim death'there | B |
| Ragweed fennel and rue | B |
| Or forms of the mind an old despair | B |
| That there into semblance grew | B |
| Out of the grief I knew | B |
Madison Julius Cawein
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