Reaping Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIAIAAAJKLMAH ALNOALPLQRSLIOTUIAVW XYHIKZLIA2RLKLLFLZB2 ALAC2LLALD2E2ZF2G2H2 I2ZJ2LLC2ZAALK2C2AC2 ZL2LC2M2ILZLN2O2QP2L ZAP2LC2LIAC2AFQ2ZLC2 TD2P2| You want to know what's the matter with me do yer | A |
| My ain't men blinder'n moles | B |
| It ain't nothin' new be sure o' that | C |
| Why ef you'd had eyes you'd ha' seed | D |
| Me changin' under your very nose | E |
| Each day a little diff'rent | F |
| But you never see nothin' you don't | G |
| Don't touch me Jake | H |
| Don't you dars't to touch me | I |
| I ain't in no humour | A |
| That's what's come over me | I |
| Jest a change clear through | A |
| You lay still an' I'll tell yer | A |
| I've had it on my mind to tell yer | A |
| Fer some time | J |
| It's a strain livin' a lie from mornin' till night | K |
| An' I'm goin' to put an end to it right now | L |
| An' don't make any mistake about one thing | M |
| When I married yer I loved yer | A |
| Why your voice 'ud make | H |
| Me go hot and cold all over | A |
| An' your kisses most stopped my heart from beatin' | L |
| Lord I was a silly fool | N |
| But that's the way 'twas | O |
| Well I married yer | A |
| An' thought Heav'n was comin' | L |
| To set on the door step | P |
| Heav'n didn't do no settin' | L |
| Though the first year warn't so bad | Q |
| The baby's fever threw you off some I guess | R |
| An' then I took her death real hard | S |
| An' a mopey wife kind o' disgusts a man | L |
| I ain't blamin' yer exactly | I |
| But that's how 'twas | O |
| Do lay quiet | T |
| I know I'm slow but it's harder to say 'n I thought | U |
| There come a time when I got to be | I |
| More wife agin than mother | A |
| The mother part was sort of a waste | V |
| When we didn't have no other child | W |
| But you'd got used ter lots o' things | X |
| An' you was all took up with the farm | Y |
| Many's the time I've laid awake | H |
| Watchin' the moon go clear through the elm tree | I |
| Out o' sight | K |
| I'd foller yer around like a dog | Z |
| An' set in the chair you'd be'n settin' in | L |
| Jest to feel its arms around me | I |
| So long's I didn't have yours | A2 |
| It preyed on me I guess | R |
| Longin' and longin' | L |
| While you was busy all day and snorin' all night | K |
| Yes I know you're wide awake now | L |
| But now ain't then | L |
| An' I guess you'll think diff'rent | F |
| When I'm done | L |
| Do you mind the day you went to Hadrock | Z |
| I didn't want to stay home for reasons | B2 |
| But you said someone 'd have to be here | A |
| 'Cause Elmer was comin' to see t' th' telephone | L |
| An' you never see why I was so set on goin' with yer | A |
| Our married life hadn't be'n any great shakes | C2 |
| Still marriage is marriage an' I was raised God fearin' | L |
| But Lord you didn't notice nothin' | L |
| An' Elmer hangin' around all Winter | A |
| 'Twas a lovely mornin' | L |
| The apple trees was jest elegant | D2 |
| With their blossoms all flared out | E2 |
| An' there warn't a cloud in the sky | Z |
| You went you wouldn't pay no 'tention to what I said | F2 |
| An' I heard the Ford chuggin' for most a mile | G2 |
| The air was so still | H2 |
| Then Elmer come | I2 |
| It's no use your frettin' Jake | Z |
| I'll tell you all about it | J2 |
| I know what I'm doin' | L |
| An' what's worse I know what I done | L |
| Elmer fixed th' telephone in about two minits | C2 |
| An' he didn't seem in no hurry to go | Z |
| An' I don't know as I wanted him to go either | A |
| I was awful mad at your not takin' me with yer | A |
| An' I was tired o' wishin' and wishin' | L |
| An' gittin' no comfort | K2 |
| I guess it ain't necessary to tell yer all the things | C2 |
| He stayed to dinner | A |
| An' he helped me do the dishes | C2 |
| An' he said a home was a fine thing | Z |
| An' I said dishes warn't a home | L2 |
| Nor yet the room they're in | L |
| He said a lot o' things | C2 |
| An' I fended him off at first | M2 |
| But he got talkin' all around me | I |
| Clost up to the things I'd be'n thinkin' | L |
| What's the use o' me goin' on Jake | Z |
| You know | L |
| He got all he wanted | N2 |
| An' I give it to him | O2 |
| An' what's more I'm glad | Q |
| I ain't dead anyway | P2 |
| An' somebody thinks I'm somethin' | L |
| Keep away Jake | Z |
| You can kill me to morrer if you want to | A |
| But I'm goin' to have my say | P2 |
| Funny thing Guess I ain't made to hold a man | L |
| Elmer ain't be'n here for mor'n two months | C2 |
| I don't want to pretend nothin' | L |
| Mebbe if he'd be'n lately | I |
| I shouldn't have told yer | A |
| I'll go away in the mornin' o' course | C2 |
| What you want the light fer | A |
| I don't look no diff'rent | F |
| Ain't the moon bright enough | Q2 |
| To look at a woman that's deceived yer by | Z |
| Don't Jake don't you can't love me now | L |
| It ain't a question of forgiveness | C2 |
| Why I'd be thinkin' o' Elmer ev'ry minute | T |
| It ain't decent | D2 |
| Oh my God It ain't decent any more either way | P2 |
Amy Lowell
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