The Solitary Woodsman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABACCDCEEFE GGAG HHHH IIHI HHJH HHAH HHAH AAKA LLAL JJAJ AAMAWhen the grey lake water rushes | A |
Past the dripping alder bushes | A |
And the bodeful autumn wind | B |
In the fir tree weeps and hushes | A |
When the air is sharply damp | C |
Round the solitary camp | C |
And the moose bush in the thicket | D |
Glimmers like a scarlet lamp | C |
When the birches twinkle yellow | E |
And the cornel bunches mellow | E |
And the owl across the twilight | F |
Trumpets to his downy fellow | E |
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When the nut fed chipmunks romp | G |
Through the maples' crimson pomp | G |
And the slim viburnum flushes | A |
In the darkness of the swamp | G |
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When the blueberries are dead | H |
When the rowan clusters red | H |
And the shy bear summer sleekened | H |
In the bracken makes his bed | H |
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On a day there comes once more | I |
To the latched and lonely door | I |
Down the wood road striding silent | H |
One who has been here before | I |
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Green spruce branches for his head | H |
Here he makes his simple bed | H |
Crouching with the sun and rising | J |
When the dawn is frosty red | H |
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All day long he wanders wide | H |
With the grey moss for his guide | H |
And his lonely axe stroke startles | A |
The expectant forest side | H |
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Toward the quiet close of day | H |
Back to camp he takes his way | H |
And about his sober footsteps | A |
Unafraid the squirrels play | H |
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On his roof the red leaf falls | A |
At his door the bluejay calls | A |
And he hears the wood mice hurry | K |
Up and down his rough log walls | A |
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Hears the laughter of the loon | L |
Thrill the dying afternoon | L |
Hears the calling of the moose | A |
Echo to the early moon | L |
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And he hears the partridge drumming | J |
The belated hornet humming | J |
All the faint prophetic sounds | A |
That foretell the winter's coming | J |
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And the wind about his eaves | A |
Through the chilly night wet grieves | A |
And the earth's dumb patience fills him | M |
Fellow to the falling leaves | A |
Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
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