The Hamadryad. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABABCDEDEDFGFHFGIJ KJIJLMLMLMNONONOPQPQ PQRSTSRSUVUWXW| Last night I was like one who prayed | A |
| Beneath a mystic tree | B |
| Whose windless leaves a murmur made | A |
| As if it there might be | B |
| A spirit in the sap that laid | A |
| Its spell on them and me | B |
| A creature who invisible | C |
| In sorrow and in mirth | D |
| Through summer's heat or when the chill | E |
| Is on the dreaming Earth | D |
| Sings as in sleep divinely still | E |
| The secret of its birth | D |
| And as it sings possessed apart | F |
| From all things far and near | G |
| The music of its own strange heart | F |
| Is all it seems to hear | H |
| As if its ardour made an art | F |
| Of its own atmosphere | G |
| Still none who come there hear the song | I |
| Until their souls are bowed | J |
| Beneath the mystic boughs among | K |
| Whose living leaves a crowd | J |
| Of spirit voices weak and strong | I |
| Sing all that God allowed | J |
| Oh wondrous was that faery strain | L |
| Too holy to be heard | M |
| But by the soul with no profane | L |
| Imagination stirr'd | M |
| Like a seer when his heart and brain | L |
| Are in the coming word | M |
| And he bows low before the breath | N |
| Of that which as a flame | O |
| All that he is illumineth | N |
| And calls him as by name | O |
| When one to him are Life and Death | N |
| One honour and one shame | O |
| Ah so possessed I heard them sing | P |
| The many voices who | Q |
| Were the sense of a secret thing | P |
| That with the tree life grew | Q |
| As it did from the same seed spring | P |
| And a dream breath from it drew | Q |
| The mystic life which God had shut | R |
| Within the dark seed's core | S |
| Diverse from all that He had put | T |
| In others evermore | S |
| No hint of death behind it but | R |
| Of life that is before | S |
| The tree life in more lives than this | U |
| Of that it sings for aye | V |
| And as I listened the world's hiss | U |
| In silence died away | W |
| And the perfect life for all that is | X |
| Like a dream on me lay | W |
Robert Crawford
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