Among The Timothy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDEFFE GHGIJJKLLK MNMNEEOPPO QPQPRRESSE TPTPPPPUUP PVPVDDWPPW XYZYA2A2B2C2DB2 QUQUPPPTTP XPXPD2D2EE2E2E

Long hours ago while yet the morn was blitheA
Nor sharp athirst had drunk the beaded dewB
A reaper came and swung his cradled scytheC
Around this stump and shearing slowly drewB
Far round among the clover ripe for hayD
A circle clean and greyD
And here among the scented swathes that gleamE
Mixed with dead daisies it is sweet to lieF
And watch the grass and the few clouded skyF
Nor think but only dreamE
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For when the noon was turning and the heatG
Fell down most heavily on field and woodH
I too came hither borne on restless feetG
Seeking some comfort for an echoing moodI
Ah I was weary of the drifting hoursJ
The echoing city towersJ
The blind grey streets the jingle of the throngK
Weary of hope that like a shape of stoneL
Sat near at hand without a smile or moanL
And weary most of songK
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And those high moods of mine that someone madeM
My heart a heaven opening like a flowerN
A sweeter world where I in wonder strayedM
Begirt with shapes of beauty and the powerN
Of dreams that moved through that enchanted climeE
With changing breaths of rhymeE
Were all gone lifeless now like those white leavesO
That hang all winter shivering dead and blindP
Among the sinewy beeches in the windP
That vainly calls and grievesO
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Ah I will set no more mine overtasked brainQ
To barren search and toil that beareth noughtP
Forever following with sorefooted painQ
The crossing pathways of unbourned thoughtP
But let it go as one that hath no skillR
To take what shape it willR
An ant slow burrowing in the earthy gloomE
A spider bathing in the dew at mornS
Or a brown bee in wayward fancy borneS
From hidden bloom to bloomE
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Hither and thither o'er the rocking grassT
The little breezes blithe as they are blindP
Teasing the slender blossoms pass and passT
Soft footed children of the gipsy windP
To taste of every purple fringed headP
Before the bloom is deadP
And scarcely heed the daisies that endowedP
With stems so short they cannot see up bearU
Their innocent sweet eyes distressed and stareU
Like children in a crowdP
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Not far to fieldward in the central heatP
Shadowing the clover a pale poplar standsV
With glimmering leaves that when the wind comes beatP
Together like innumerable small handsV
And with the calm as in vague dreams astrayD
Hang wan and silver greyD
Like sleepy maenads who in pale surpriseW
Half wakened by a prowling beast have creptP
Out of the hidden covert where they sleptP
At noon with languid eyesW
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The crickets creak and through the noonday glowX
That crazy fiddler of the hot mid yearY
The dry cicada plies his wiry bowZ
In long spun cadence thin and dusty sereY
From the green grass the small grasshoppers' dinA2
Spreads soft and silvery thinA2
And ever and anon a murmur stealsB2
Into mine ears of toil that moves alwayC2
The crackling rustle of the pitch forked hayD
And lazy jerk of wheelsB2
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As so I lie and feel the soft hours a waneQ
To wind and sun and peaceful sound laid bareU
That aching dim discomfort of the brainQ
Fades off unseen and shadowy footed careU
Into some hidden corner creeps at lastP
To slumber deep and fastP
And gliding on quite fashioned to forgetP
From dream to dream I bid my spirit passT
Out into the pale green ever swaying grassT
To brood but no more fretP
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And hour by hour among all shapes that growX
Of purple mints and daisies gemmed with goldP
In sweet unrest my visions come and goX
I feel and hear and with quiet eyes beholdP
And hour by hour the ever journeying sunD2
In gold and shadow spunD2
Into mine eyes and blood and through the dimE
Green glimmering forest of the grass shines downE2
Till flower and blade and every cranny brownE2
And I are soaked with himE

Archibald Lampman



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