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 J2UJ2UShe 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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