The Caves Of Auvergne Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB CDCDED FGHIJG KLLLMN OPQPRP SDTDMD UJLJAJ DLLLVL AWXWY| He carved the red deer and the bull | A |
| Upon the smooth cave rock | B |
| Returned from war with belly full | A |
| And scarred with many a knock | B |
| He carved the red deer and the bull | A |
| Upon the smooth cave rock | B |
| - | |
| The stars flew by the cave's wide door | C |
| The clouds wild trumpets blew | D |
| Trees rose in wild dreams from the floor | C |
| Flowers with dream faces grew | D |
| Up to the sky and softly hung | E |
| Golden and white and blue | D |
| - | |
| The woman ground her heap of corn | F |
| Her heart a guarded fire | G |
| The wind played in his trembling soul | H |
| Like a hand upon a lyre | I |
| The wind drew faintly on the stone | J |
| Symbols of his desire | G |
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| The red deer of the forest dark | K |
| Whose antlers cut the sky | L |
| That vanishes into the mirk | L |
| And like a dream flits by | L |
| And by an arrow slain at last | M |
| Is but the wind's dark body | N |
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| The bull that stands in marshy lakes | O |
| As motionless and still | P |
| As a dark rock jutting from a plain | Q |
| Without a tree or hill | P |
| The bull that is the sign of life | R |
| Its sombre phallic will | P |
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| And from the dead white eyes of them | S |
| The wind springs up anew | D |
| It blows upon the trembling heart | T |
| And bull and deer renew | D |
| Their flitting life in the dim past | M |
| When that dead Hunter drew | D |
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| I sit beside him in the night | U |
| And fingering his red stone | J |
| I chase through endless forests dark | L |
| Seeking that thing unknown | J |
| That which is not red deer or bull | A |
| But which by them was shown | J |
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| By those stiff shapes in which he drew | D |
| His soul's exalted cry | L |
| When flying down the forest dark | L |
| He slew and knew not why | L |
| When he was filled with song and strength | V |
| Flowed to him from the sky | L |
| - | |
| The wind blows from red deer and bull | A |
| The clouds wild trumpets blare | W |
| Trees rise in wild dreams from the earth | X |
| Flowers with dream faces stare | W |
| 'O Hunter your own shadow stands | Y |
| Within your forest lair ' | - |
W.j. Turner
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