A Rainy Day On The Farm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEFGGHIJJKKLLBBB BB| How sweet it is to see the new sown cornfield fresh and even | A |
| With blades just springing from the soil that only ask a shower | B |
| from heaven | C |
| Then while kindly rains are falling indolently to rejoice | D |
| Till some worthy neighbor calling cheers you with his hearty voice | D |
| Well with weather such as this let us hear Trygaeus tell us | E |
| What should you and I be doing You're the king of us good fellows | F |
| Since it pleases heaven to prosper your endeavors friend and mine | G |
| Let us have a merry meeting with some friendly talk and wine | G |
| In the vineyard there's your lout hoeing in the slop and mud | H |
| Send the wench and call him out this weather he can do no good | I |
| Dame take down two pints of meal and do some fritters in your way | J |
| Boil some grain and stir it in and let us have those figs I say | J |
| Send a servant to my house any one that you can spare | K |
| Let him fetch a beestings pudding two gherkins and the pies of hare | K |
| There should be four of them in all if the cat has left them right | L |
| We heard her racketing and tearing round the larder all last night | L |
| Boy bring three of them to us take the other to my father | B |
| Cut some myrtle for our garlands sprigs in flower or blossoms rather | B |
| Give a shout upon the way to Charinades our neighbor | B |
| To join our drinking bout to day since heaven is pleased to bless our | B |
| labor | B |
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