Willow Wood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBB C DDBDBB C EEFGFF H GGDGDD H BBIBII I BBBBBB I DDGDGG I JKBKBB B LLBLBB B BBMBMM B MMNMNN B MMMMMM| Deep in the wood of willow trees | A |
| The summer sounds and whispering breeze | A |
| Bound me as if with glimmering arms | B |
| And spells of witchcraft sorceries | B |
| That filled the wood with phantom forms | B |
| And held me with their faery charms | B |
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| II | C |
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| Within the wood they laid their snare | D |
| The invisible web was everywhere | D |
| I felt it clasp me with its gleams | B |
| And mesh my soul from feet to hair | D |
| In weavings of intangible beams | B |
| Woven with dim and delicate dreams | B |
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| III | C |
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| As dream by dream passed shadowy | E |
| One came an antique pageantry | E |
| Of Faeryland it marched with pride | F |
| Of faery horns blown silverly | G |
| Around the Elf prince and his bride | F |
| Who rode on steeds of milk white stride | F |
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| IV | H |
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| Then from the shadow of a pool | G |
| The water fays rose beautiful | G |
| I saw them wring their long green hair | D |
| And felt their eyes gaze emerald cool | G |
| And from their fresh lips everywhere | D |
| Their rainy laughter dew the air | D |
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| V | H |
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| And through the willow leaves I saw | B |
| As in a crystal without flaw | B |
| Slim limbs and faces sly of eye | I |
| Elves piping on gnat flutes of straw | B |
| Thin as the violin of a fly | I |
| Or clashing cricket cymbals by | I |
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| VI | I |
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| And then I saw the warted gnomes | B |
| Creep beetle backed from rocky combs | B |
| Lamped with their jewelled talismans | B |
| Rubies that torch their caverned homes | B |
| Green grottoes where their treasure clans | B |
| Intrigue and thwart our human plans | B |
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| VII | I |
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| And near them foam frail flower fair | D |
| Sun sylphids shook their showery hair | D |
| And from their blossom houses blew | G |
| Musk wood rose kisses everywhere | D |
| Or prisoned in a dropp of dew | G |
| Twinkled an eye of sapphire blue | G |
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| VIII | I |
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| And imps wasp bodied ouphs that guard | J |
| The Courts of Oberon their lord | K |
| Bee bellied hornet headed things | B |
| Went by each with his whining sword | K |
| Fanning the heat with courier wings | B |
| Bound on some message of the King's | B |
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| IX | B |
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| And pansy tunicked gowned in down | L |
| The lords and ladies of the crown | L |
| Beautiful and bright as butterflies | B |
| Passed marching to some Faery Town | L |
| While dragoned things mailed to the eyes | B |
| Soldiered their way in knightly wise | B |
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| X | B |
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| Then suddenly the finger tips | B |
| Faint moth like and the flower lips | B |
| Of some one on my eye lids pressed | M |
| And as a moonbeam silvering slips | B |
| Out of a shadow tangle tressed | M |
| A Dream I'd known stood manifest | M |
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| XI | B |
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| A Dream I'd known when but a child | M |
| That lived within my soul and smiled | M |
| Far in the world of faery lore | N |
| By whom my heart was oft beguiled | M |
| And who invested sea and shore | N |
| With her fair presence evermore | N |
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| XII | B |
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| She drew me in that stately band | M |
| That marched with her to Faeryland | M |
| Again her words I understood | M |
| Who smiling reached to me her hand | M |
| And filled me with beatitude | M |
| This happened in the willow wood | M |
Madison Julius Cawein
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