Canning Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBABCCBBDE BBBBBBBBBED CBBCBCCFFCC| There's a wondrous smell of spices | A |
| In the kitchen | B |
| Most bewitchin' | B |
| There are fruits cut into slices | A |
| That just set the palate itchin' | B |
| There's the sound of spoon on platter | C |
| And the rattle and the clatter | C |
| And a bunch of kids are hastin' | B |
| To the splendid joy of tastin' | B |
| It's the fragrant time of year | D |
| When fruit cannin' days are here | E |
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| There's a good wife gayly smilin' | B |
| And perspirin' | B |
| Some and tirin' | B |
| And while jar on jar she's pilin' | B |
| And the necks o' them she's wirin' | B |
| I'm a sittin' here an' dreamin' | B |
| Of the kettles that are steamin' | B |
| And the cares that have been troublin' | B |
| All have vanished in the bubblin' | B |
| I am happy that I'm here | E |
| At the cannin' time of year | D |
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| Lord I'm sorry for the feller | C |
| That is missin' | B |
| All the hissin' | B |
| Of the juices red and yeller | C |
| And can never sit and listen | B |
| To the rattle and the clatter | C |
| Of the sound of spoon on platter | C |
| I am sorry for the single | F |
| For they miss the thrill and tingle | F |
| Of the splendid time of year | C |
| When the cannin' days are here | C |
Edgar Albert Guest
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