Heat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFGHIJI KEKELMNM OPOPQRER SOSOTOTO OOOOFSFUFrom plains that reel to southward dim | A |
The road runs by me white and bare | B |
Up the steep hill it seems to swim | A |
Beyond and melt into the glare | B |
Upward half way or it may be | C |
Nearer the summit slowly steals | D |
A hay cart moving dustily | E |
With idly clacking wheels | D |
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By his cart's side the wagoner | F |
Is slouching slowly at his ease | G |
Half hidden in the windless blur | F |
Of white dust puffing to his knees | G |
This wagon on the height above | H |
From sky to sky on either hand | I |
Is the sole thing that seems to move | J |
In all the heat held land | I |
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Beyond me in the fields the sun | K |
Soaks in the grass and hath his will | E |
I count the marguerites one by one | K |
Even the buttercups are still | E |
On the brook yonder not a breath | L |
Disturbs the spider at the midge | M |
The water bugs draw close beneath | N |
The cool gloom of the bridge | M |
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Where the far elm tree shadows flood | O |
Dark patches in the burning grass | P |
The cows each with her peaceful cud | O |
Lie waiting for the heat to pass | P |
From somewhere on the slope near by | Q |
Into the pale depth of the noon | R |
A wandering thrush slides leisurely | E |
His thin revolving tune | R |
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In intervals of dreams I hear | S |
The cricket from the droughty ground | O |
The grass hoppers spin into mine ear | S |
A small innumerable sound | O |
I lift my eyes somewhat to gaze | T |
The burning sky line blinds my sight | O |
The woods far off are blue with haze | T |
The hills are drenched in light | O |
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And yet to me not this or that | O |
Is always sharp or always sweet | O |
In the sloped shadow of my hat | O |
I lean at rest and drain the heat | O |
Nay more I think some blessed power | F |
Hath brought me wandering idly here | S |
In the full furnace of this hour | F |
My thoughts grow keen and clear | U |
Archibald Lampman
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