Wood-words Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDDC BEFFE BGHHG BIJJI BKLLK A MNOON DPDDP QRQQS TOTTO A OOOOO OUOOU D OVOVV WFWFF OOOOO XYXYY OOOOOI | A |
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The spirits of the forest | B |
That to the winds give voice | C |
I lie the livelong April day | D |
And wonder what it is they say | D |
That makes the leaves rejoice | C |
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The spirits of the forest | B |
That breathe in bud and bloom | E |
I walk within the black haw brake | F |
And wonder how it is they make | F |
The bubbles of perfume | E |
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The spirits of the forest | B |
That live in every spring | G |
I lean above the brook's bright blue | H |
And wonder what it is they do | H |
That makes the water sing | G |
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The spirits of the forest | B |
That haunt the sun's green glow | I |
Down fungus ways of fern I steal | J |
And wonder what they can conceal | J |
In dews that twinkles so | I |
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The spirits of the forest | B |
They hold me heart and hand | K |
And oh the bird they send by light | L |
The jack o' lantern gleam by night | L |
To guide to Fairyland | K |
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II | A |
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The time when dog tooth violets | M |
Hold up inverted horns of gold | N |
The elvish cups that Spring upsets | O |
With dripping feet when April wets | O |
The sun and shadow marbled wold | N |
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Is come And by each leafing way | D |
The sorrel drops pale blots of pink | P |
And like an angled star a fay | D |
Sets on her forehead's pallid day | D |
The blossoms of the trillium wink | P |
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Within the vale by rock and stream | Q |
A fragile fairy porcelain | R |
Blue as a baby's eyes a dream | Q |
The bluets blow and gleam in gleam | Q |
The sun shot dog woods flash with rain | S |
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It is the time to cast off care | T |
To make glad intimates of these | O |
The frank faced sunbeam laughing there | T |
The great heart wind that bids us share | T |
The optimism of the trees | O |
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III | A |
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The white ghosts of the flowers | O |
The green ghosts of the trees | O |
They haunt the blooming bowers | O |
They haunt the wildwood hours | O |
And whisper in the breeze | O |
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For in the wildrose places | O |
And on the beechen knoll | U |
My soul hath seen their faces | O |
My soul hath met their races | O |
And felt their dim control | U |
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IV | D |
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Crab apple buds whose bells | O |
The mouth of April kissed | V |
That hang like rosy shells | O |
Around a naiad's wrist | V |
Pink as dawn tinted mist | V |
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And paw paw buds whose dark | W |
Deep auburn blossoms shake | F |
On boughs as 'neath the bark | W |
A dryad's eyes awake | F |
Brown as a midnight lake | F |
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These with symbolic blooms | O |
Of wind flower and wild phlox | O |
I found among the glooms | O |
Of hill lost woods and rocks | O |
Lairs of the mink and fox | O |
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The beetle in the brush | X |
The bird about the creek | Y |
The bee within the hush | X |
And I whose heart was meek | Y |
Stood still to hear these speak | Y |
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The language that records | O |
In flower syllables | O |
The hieroglyphic words | O |
Of beauty who enspells | O |
The world and aye compels | O |
Madison Julius Cawein
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