Watching The Reapers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJGKLMNOCPQR SI| Tillers of the soil have few idle months | A |
| In the fifth month their toil is double fold | B |
| A south wind visits the fields at night | C |
| Suddenly the hill is covered with yellow corn | D |
| Wives and daughters shoulder baskets of rice | E |
| Youths and boys carry the flasks of wine | F |
| Following after they bring a wage of meat | G |
| To the strong reapers toiling on the southern hill | H |
| Whose feet are burned by the hot earth they tread | I |
| Whose backs are scorched by flames of the shining sky | J |
| Tired they toil caring nothing for the heat | G |
| Grudging the shortness of the long summer day | K |
| A poor woman follows at the reapers' side | L |
| With an infant child carried close to her breast | M |
| With her right hand she gleans the fallen grain | N |
| On her left arm a broken basket hangs | O |
| And I today by virtue of what right | C |
| Have I never once tended field or tree | P |
| My government pay is three hundred tons | Q |
| At the year's end I have still grain in hand | R |
| Thinking of this secretly I grew ashamed | S |
| And all day the thought lingered in my head | I |
Bai Juyi
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