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 fallsA
With spirits of the winds and leavesB
And to her side the soul she callsA
Of every flower she perceivesB
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She walks with introspective eyesC
That see not as the eyes of manD
But with the dream that in them liesC
And which no outward eyes may scanD
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She sits among the sunset hillsE
Or trails a silken skirt of breezeF
Then with the voice of whip poor willsE
Summons the twilight to the treesF
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Among the hollows dim with muskG
Where wild the stream shows heels of foamH
She sows with firefly seeds the duskG
And leads the booming beetle homeH
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She blows the glow worm lamps a glareI
And hangs them by each way like eyesC
Then mid the blossoms everywhereI
She rocks to sleep the butterfliesC
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She calls the red fox from his denJ
And hollowing to her mouth one handK
Halloos the owlets in the glenJ
And hoots awake the purple landK
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The cricket knows her foot's light treadL
And sings for her an elfin massM
She puts the bumble bee to bedL
And shakes the white moth from the grassM
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And to the mud wasps where they topN
Their cells of clay she murmurs sleepO
She bids the toad come forth and hopN
The snail put out its horns and creepO
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She taps upon the dead tree's trunkP
And 'neath the bark the worm beginsQ
And where the rotted wood is punkP
Its twinkling web the spider spinsQ
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She claps a night cap of the dewR
On every rosy clover headL
And on the lily pale of hueR
She slips a gown while still in bedL
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With kisses cool of drowsy mistS
She thrills each wildflower's heart with JuneT
And whispering gold and amethystS
Sighs legends to them of the moonT
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She bids the black bat forth to beU
The courier of her darker moodsV
She mounts the moon imp MysteryU
And speeds him wildly through the woodsW
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She crowds with ghosts the forest walksX
And with the wind's dim words invokesY
The spirit that for ever talksX
Unto the congregated oaksY
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She leans above the flying streamZ
Her starry gaze commands it stayA2
And in its lucid deeps a dreamZ
Takes shape and glimmers on its wayA2
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She rests upon the lichened stoneB2
Her moonbeam hair spread bright aroundC2
And in the darkness one by oneD2
The unborn flowers break the groundC2
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She lays her mouth like some sweet wordE2
Against the wild bird's nest that swingsF2
And in the speckled egg that heardE2
The young bird stirs its wings and singsF2
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In her all dreams find permanenceG2
All mysteries that trance the soulH2
And substance that evades the senseI2
Through her wood magic is made wholeH2
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Oh she is lovelier than she seemsJ2
To any one whose soul may seeU
But only they who walk with dreamsJ2
Shall meet with her and know 'tis sheU

Madison Julius Cawein



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