To A Summer Poet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDCCDEFGHIJJIKK LM NNNMNNOLPHHP| Yes the Summer girl is flirting on the beach | A |
| With a him | B |
| And the damboy is a climbing for the peach | A |
| On the limb | B |
| Yes the bullfrog is a croaking | C |
| And the dudelet is a smoking | C |
| Cigarettes | D |
| And the hackman is a hacking | C |
| And the showman is a cracking | C |
| Up his pets | D |
| Yes the Jersey 'skeeter flits along the shore | E |
| And the snapdog we have heard it o'er and o'er | F |
| Yes my poet | G |
| Well we know it | H |
| Know the spooners how they spoon | I |
| In the bright | J |
| Dollar light | J |
| Of the country tavern moon | I |
| Yes the caterpillars fall | K |
| From the trees we know it all | K |
| And with beetles all the shelves | L |
| Are alive | M |
| - | |
| Please unbuttonhole us O | N |
| Have the grace to let us go | N |
| For we know | N |
| How you Summer poets thrive | M |
| By the recapitulation | N |
| And insistent iteration | N |
| Of the wondrous doings incident to Life Among | O |
| Ourselves | L |
| So I pray you stop the fervor and the fuss | P |
| For you poor human linnet | H |
| There's a half a living in it | H |
| But there's not a copper cent in it for us | P |
Ambrose Bierce
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