Will-o'-the-wisp Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDCCE A FFDEEEE A GGEEEEE H BBIEIIE| I | A |
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| There in the calamus he stands | B |
| With frog webbed feet and bat winged hands | B |
| His glow worm garb glints goblin wise | C |
| And elfishly and elfishly | D |
| Above the gleam of owlet eyes | C |
| A death's moth cap of downy dyes | C |
| Nods out at me nods out at me | E |
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| II | A |
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| Now in the reeds his face looks white | F |
| As witch down on a witches' night | F |
| Now through the dark old haunted mill | D |
| So eerily so eerily | E |
| He flits and with a whippoorwill | E |
| Mouth calls and seems to syllable | E |
| Come follow me come follow me | E |
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| III | A |
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| Now o'er the sluggish stream he wends | G |
| A slim light at his finger ends | G |
| The spotted spawn the toad hath clomb | E |
| Slips oozily slips oozily | E |
| His easy footsteps seem to come | E |
| Like bubble gaspings of the scum | E |
| Now near to me now near to me | E |
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| IV | H |
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| There by the stagnant pool he stands | B |
| A fox fire lamp in flickering hands | B |
| The weeds are slimy to the tread | I |
| And mockingly and mockingly | E |
| With slanted eyes and eldritch head | I |
| He leans above a face long dead | I |
| The face of me the face of me | E |
Madison Julius Cawein
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