Wood Dreams Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCCDAEFEFFGHHGE FIFIIJKKJF LCLCCMNLOL PQPQQRCCRP SCSCCTUUTS CBCBBFFFFC VWVWWKXXKV FYFYYZFFZF COCOOA2FFA2C EOEOOB2CCB2B2 LLLLLF C2OOD2L B2A2B2A2A2OOOOB2 OB2OB2B2COOCO FOFOOLFFLF OTOTTE2FFE2OAbout the time when bluebells swing | A |
Their elfin belfries for the bee | B |
And in the fragrant House of Spring | A |
Wild Music moves and Fantasy | B |
Sits weaving webs of witchery | C |
And Beauty's self in silence leans | D |
Above the brook and through her hair | C |
Beholds her face reflected there | C |
And wonders what the vision means | D |
About the time when bluebells swing | A |
I found a path of glooms and gleams | E |
A way that Childhood oft has gone | F |
That leads into the Wood of Dreams | E |
Where as of old dwell Fay and Faun | F |
And Fa rie dances until dawn | F |
And Elfland calls from her blue cave | G |
Or starbright on her snow white steed | H |
Rides blowing on a silver reed | H |
That Magic follows like a slave | G |
I found a path of glooms and gleams | E |
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And in that Wood I came again | F |
On old enchantments There behold | I |
I saw them pass a kingly train | F |
Fable and Legend wise and old | I |
In garb of glimmering green and gold | I |
While far away forgotten bells | J |
And horns of Fa rie made faint sound | K |
And all the anxious heaven around | K |
And earth grew gossamered with spells | J |
And whirled with ouphen feet again | F |
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And lo I saw the ancient Hall | L |
Of Story rise where Dreams conspire | C |
With Words and Music to enthrall | L |
The Yearning of the soul's desire | C |
Holding it fast with charm d fire | C |
Where Glamour bows in servitude | M |
And Lord of Ecstasy and Awe | N |
Song with his henchmen Lore and Law | L |
Sits 'mid the mighty Brotherhood | O |
Of Beauty in that twilight Hall | L |
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Then far away the forest rang | P |
With something more than bugle calls | Q |
A voice a summons wild that sang | P |
As if Adventure in his halls | Q |
Awoke or Daring on the walls | Q |
Shouted to Youth to take his stand | R |
Before the wizard guarded tower | C |
Where Love within her secret bower | C |
Beckons him on with moon white hand | R |
Why was it that the forest rang | P |
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And then I knew It was my Sprite | S |
My Witch whose spells had led me far | C |
Who held me with the old delight | S |
And drew my soul beyond the bar | C |
Of all the real like a star | C |
How long ago how far that day | T |
Since first I met her in the wild | U |
And on my face her white face smiled | U |
And my child fears she soothed away | T |
Ay ay 'twas she my airy Sprite | S |
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And on my heart again the hour | C |
Flashed as when first she gazed at me | B |
Her loveliness clothed on with power | C |
And joy and godlike mystery | B |
A portion of Earth's ecstasy | B |
Again I felt in ways unknown | F |
Down in my soul a memory waken | F |
Of some far kiss once given and taken | F |
That made me hers her very own | F |
Once every year for one brief hour | C |
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A Dryad laughed among the trees | V |
A Naiad flashed with limbs a spark | W |
A Satyr reached rough arms to seize | V |
A Faun foot danced adown the dark | W |
To music of rude pipes of bark | W |
Earth crowded all its shapes around | K |
Myths bare and beautiful of breast | X |
'Mid whom pursuing passion pressed | X |
Wild Pan like leaping from the ground | K |
A Dryad laughed among the trees | V |
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Then Elfdom in a starlike rain | F |
To right and left rose blossoms slim | Y |
And urged its Joy in twinkling train | F |
Down many a flower and rainbow rim | Y |
Of moonbeam Fancy sat with Whim | Y |
And from the ferns gleamed glowworm eyes | Z |
Where Fa rie held its Court and green | F |
An impish spirit ran between | F |
With Puck like laughter of surprise | Z |
And firefly flickerings wild as rain | F |
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Then suddenly a light that grew | C |
And in the light my Witch who stood | O |
As crystal evident as dew | C |
Weaving a spell that made the wood | O |
Take on a dream's similitude | O |
And lo through radiance and perfume | A2 |
I saw Romance crowned with a crown | F |
And Chivalry come riding down | F |
On two great steeds all gold and gloom | A2 |
Round whom the splendor grew and grew | C |
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And of the Dream the forest dreams | E |
Again my soul becomes a part | O |
Again my magic armor gleams | E |
Again beneath its steel my heart | O |
Throbs all impatient for the start | O |
Again the towers of Time and Chance | B2 |
Loom grimly where forever fair | C |
Wrapped in the glory of her hair | C |
Beauty lies bound by Necromance | B2 |
The Beauty that we know in dreams | B2 |
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And as before again I smile | L |
Delaying still to break the spell | L |
Facing the gateway of old Guile | L |
Where hangs the slug horn that shall knell | L |
Defiance to the Courts of Hell | L |
'Then Elfdom in a starlike rain | F |
To right and left rose blossom slim ' | - |
What though around me torch on torch | C2 |
The eyes of Danger glowering wait | O |
What though Death heaves a sword of hate | O |
Beneath the gate's enchanted arch | D2 |
I raise the horn again and smile | L |
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What now O Night shall make me pause | B2 |
I face the darkness of the tomb | A2 |
That stirs with clank of iron claws | B2 |
And threatenngs of gigantic doom | A2 |
The monster in the granite gloom | A2 |
And then full in the face of Night | O |
I hurl my challenge blast on blast | O |
The drawbridge thunders and the vast | O |
Echoes with batlike wings in flight | O |
There is no thing to give me pause | B2 |
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My heart sings bounding to its quest | O |
I mount the stairs to where she sleeps | B2 |
A rose upon her brow and breast | O |
And in her long hair's golden deeps | B2 |
The glory of the youth she keeps | B2 |
I kneel again I clasp her there | C |
I kiss her mouth but lo behold | O |
Her beauty crumbles into mold | O |
'And all the castle goes in air | C |
And with it all my heart's high quest | O |
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And in the wood I wake again | F |
The Dream is gone as is the child | O |
Who followed far in rapture's train | F |
And by a vision was beguiled | O |
The Witch the Presence undefiled | O |
Whose call still sounds o'er holt and hollow | L |
An elfin bugle in the morn | F |
And in the eve a faery horn | F |
Bidding the dreaming heart to follow | L |
The child in man that hears again | F |
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For what we dream is never lost | O |
Dreams mold the soul within the clay | T |
The rapture and the pentecost | O |
Of beauty shape our lives some way | T |
They are the beam the guiding ray | T |
That Nature dowers us with at birth | E2 |
And like the light upon the crown | F |
Of some dark hill that towers down | F |
Point us to Heaven not to Earth | E2 |
Above the world where dreams are lost | O |
Madison Julius Cawein
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