Witchery Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH ICIC JKJK LMLM NONO PQPQ RLRL STST UVUW XYXY ZA2ZA2 B2C2D2C2 E2F2E2F2 G2H2I2H2 J2UJ2U| She walks the woods when evening falls | A |
| With spirits of the winds and leaves | B |
| And to her side the soul she calls | A |
| Of every flower she perceives | B |
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| She walks with introspective eyes | C |
| That see not as the eyes of man | D |
| But with the dream that in them lies | C |
| And which no outward eyes may scan | D |
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| She sits among the sunset hills | E |
| Or trails a silken skirt of breeze | F |
| Then with the voice of whip poor wills | E |
| Summons the twilight to the trees | F |
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| Among the hollows dim with musk | G |
| Where wild the stream shows heels of foam | H |
| She sows with firefly seeds the dusk | G |
| And leads the booming beetle home | H |
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| She blows the glow worm lamps a glare | I |
| And hangs them by each way like eyes | C |
| Then mid the blossoms everywhere | I |
| She rocks to sleep the butterflies | C |
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| She calls the red fox from his den | J |
| And hollowing to her mouth one hand | K |
| Halloos the owlets in the glen | J |
| And hoots awake the purple land | K |
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| The cricket knows her foot's light tread | L |
| And sings for her an elfin mass | M |
| She puts the bumble bee to bed | L |
| And shakes the white moth from the grass | M |
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| And to the mud wasps where they top | N |
| Their cells of clay she murmurs sleep | O |
| She bids the toad come forth and hop | N |
| The snail put out its horns and creep | O |
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| She taps upon the dead tree's trunk | P |
| And 'neath the bark the worm begins | Q |
| And where the rotted wood is punk | P |
| Its twinkling web the spider spins | Q |
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| She claps a night cap of the dew | R |
| On every rosy clover head | L |
| And on the lily pale of hue | R |
| She slips a gown while still in bed | L |
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| With kisses cool of drowsy mist | S |
| She thrills each wildflower's heart with June | T |
| And whispering gold and amethyst | S |
| Sighs legends to them of the moon | T |
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| She bids the black bat forth to be | U |
| The courier of her darker moods | V |
| She mounts the moon imp Mystery | U |
| And speeds him wildly through the woods | W |
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| She crowds with ghosts the forest walks | X |
| And with the wind's dim words invokes | Y |
| The spirit that for ever talks | X |
| Unto the congregated oaks | Y |
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| She leans above the flying stream | Z |
| Her starry gaze commands it stay | A2 |
| And in its lucid deeps a dream | Z |
| Takes shape and glimmers on its way | A2 |
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| She rests upon the lichened stone | B2 |
| Her moonbeam hair spread bright around | C2 |
| And in the darkness one by one | D2 |
| The unborn flowers break the ground | C2 |
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| She lays her mouth like some sweet word | E2 |
| Against the wild bird's nest that swings | F2 |
| And in the speckled egg that heard | E2 |
| The young bird stirs its wings and sings | F2 |
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| In her all dreams find permanence | G2 |
| All mysteries that trance the soul | H2 |
| And substance that evades the sense | I2 |
| Through her wood magic is made whole | H2 |
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| Oh she is lovelier than she seems | J2 |
| To any one whose soul may see | U |
| But only they who walk with dreams | J2 |
| Shall meet with her and know 'tis she | U |
Madison Julius Cawein
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