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 OOOOO| I | 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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