Among The Timothy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDEFFE GHGIJJKLLK MNMNEEOPPO QPQPRRESSE TPTPPPPUUP PVPVDDWPPW XYZYA2A2B2C2DB2 QUQUPPPTTP XPXPD2D2EE2E2ELong hours ago while yet the morn was blithe | A |
Nor sharp athirst had drunk the beaded dew | B |
A reaper came and swung his cradled scythe | C |
Around this stump and shearing slowly drew | B |
Far round among the clover ripe for hay | D |
A circle clean and grey | D |
And here among the scented swathes that gleam | E |
Mixed with dead daisies it is sweet to lie | F |
And watch the grass and the few clouded sky | F |
Nor think but only dream | E |
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For when the noon was turning and the heat | G |
Fell down most heavily on field and wood | H |
I too came hither borne on restless feet | G |
Seeking some comfort for an echoing mood | I |
Ah I was weary of the drifting hours | J |
The echoing city towers | J |
The blind grey streets the jingle of the throng | K |
Weary of hope that like a shape of stone | L |
Sat near at hand without a smile or moan | L |
And weary most of song | K |
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And those high moods of mine that someone made | M |
My heart a heaven opening like a flower | N |
A sweeter world where I in wonder strayed | M |
Begirt with shapes of beauty and the power | N |
Of dreams that moved through that enchanted clime | E |
With changing breaths of rhyme | E |
Were all gone lifeless now like those white leaves | O |
That hang all winter shivering dead and blind | P |
Among the sinewy beeches in the wind | P |
That vainly calls and grieves | O |
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Ah I will set no more mine overtasked brain | Q |
To barren search and toil that beareth nought | P |
Forever following with sorefooted pain | Q |
The crossing pathways of unbourned thought | P |
But let it go as one that hath no skill | R |
To take what shape it will | R |
An ant slow burrowing in the earthy gloom | E |
A spider bathing in the dew at morn | S |
Or a brown bee in wayward fancy borne | S |
From hidden bloom to bloom | E |
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Hither and thither o'er the rocking grass | T |
The little breezes blithe as they are blind | P |
Teasing the slender blossoms pass and pass | T |
Soft footed children of the gipsy wind | P |
To taste of every purple fringed head | P |
Before the bloom is dead | P |
And scarcely heed the daisies that endowed | P |
With stems so short they cannot see up bear | U |
Their innocent sweet eyes distressed and stare | U |
Like children in a crowd | P |
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Not far to fieldward in the central heat | P |
Shadowing the clover a pale poplar stands | V |
With glimmering leaves that when the wind comes beat | P |
Together like innumerable small hands | V |
And with the calm as in vague dreams astray | D |
Hang wan and silver grey | D |
Like sleepy maenads who in pale surprise | W |
Half wakened by a prowling beast have crept | P |
Out of the hidden covert where they slept | P |
At noon with languid eyes | W |
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The crickets creak and through the noonday glow | X |
That crazy fiddler of the hot mid year | Y |
The dry cicada plies his wiry bow | Z |
In long spun cadence thin and dusty sere | Y |
From the green grass the small grasshoppers' din | A2 |
Spreads soft and silvery thin | A2 |
And ever and anon a murmur steals | B2 |
Into mine ears of toil that moves alway | C2 |
The crackling rustle of the pitch forked hay | D |
And lazy jerk of wheels | B2 |
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As so I lie and feel the soft hours a wane | Q |
To wind and sun and peaceful sound laid bare | U |
That aching dim discomfort of the brain | Q |
Fades off unseen and shadowy footed care | U |
Into some hidden corner creeps at last | P |
To slumber deep and fast | P |
And gliding on quite fashioned to forget | P |
From dream to dream I bid my spirit pass | T |
Out into the pale green ever swaying grass | T |
To brood but no more fret | P |
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And hour by hour among all shapes that grow | X |
Of purple mints and daisies gemmed with gold | P |
In sweet unrest my visions come and go | X |
I feel and hear and with quiet eyes behold | P |
And hour by hour the ever journeying sun | D2 |
In gold and shadow spun | D2 |
Into mine eyes and blood and through the dim | E |
Green glimmering forest of the grass shines down | E2 |
Till flower and blade and every cranny brown | E2 |
And I are soaked with him | E |
Archibald Lampman
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