California Hills In August Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGHIJ KLMNO PQKRS QTUVW| I can imagine someone who found | A |
| these fields unbearable who climbed | B |
| the hillside in the heat cursing the dust | C |
| cracking the brittle weeds underfoot | D |
| wishing a few more trees for shade | E |
| - | |
| An Easterner especially who would scorn | F |
| the meagerness of summer the dry | G |
| twisted shapes of black elm | H |
| scrub oak and chaparral a landscape | I |
| August has already drained of green | J |
| - | |
| One who would hurry over the clinging | K |
| thistle foxtail golden poppy | L |
| knowing everything was just a weed | M |
| unable to conceive that these trees | N |
| and sparse brown bushes were alive | O |
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| And hate the bright stillness of the noon | P |
| without wind without motion | Q |
| the only other living thing | K |
| a hawk hungry for prey suspended | R |
| in the blinding sunlit blue | S |
| - | |
| And yet how gentle it seems to someone | Q |
| raised in a landscape short of rain | T |
| the skyline of a hill broken by no more | U |
| trees than one can count the grass | V |
| the empty sky the wish for water | W |
Dana Gioia
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