August Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII JKJKLL GGGGMM NOPOQQ FRFRS PTNTGG UGUGQQ VWVWNNLEAVE me alone for August's sleepy charm | A |
Is on me and I will not break the spell | B |
My head is on the mighty Mother's arm | A |
I will not ask if life goes ill or well | B |
There is no world I do not care to know | C |
Whence aught has come nor whither it shall go | C |
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I want to wander over pastures still | D |
Where sheared white sheep and mild eyed cattle graze | E |
To climb the thymy clover covered hill | D |
To look down on the valley's hot blue haze | E |
And on the short brown turf for hours to lie | F |
Gazing straight up into the clear deep sky | F |
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I want to walk through crisp gold harvest fields | G |
Through meadows yellowed by the August heat | H |
To loiter through the cool dim wood that yields | G |
Such perfect flowers and quiet so complete | H |
The happy woods where every bud and leaf | I |
Is full of dreams as life is full of grief | I |
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I want to think no more of all the pain | J |
That in the city thrives a poison flower | K |
The eternal loss the never coming gain | J |
The lifelong woe the joy that lives an hour | K |
Bright evanescent as the dew that dawn | L |
Shows on this silent wood encircled lawn | L |
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I want to pull the honey bud that twines | G |
About the blackberries and gold leaf sloes | G |
To part the boughs where the rare water shines | G |
Tread the soft bank whereby the bulrush grows | G |
I want to be no more myself but be | M |
Made one with all the beauty that I see | M |
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Oh happy country myriad voiced and dear | N |
I have no heart no eyes except for you | O |
Yours are the only voices I will hear | P |
Yours is the only bidding I will do | O |
You bid me be at peace and let alone | Q |
That loud rough world where peace is never known | Q |
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Yet through your voices comes a sterner cry | F |
A voice I cannot silence if I would | R |
It mars the song the lark sings to the sky | F |
It breaks the changeful music of the wood | R |
'Back to your post a charge you have to keep | S |
Freedom is bleeding while her soldiers sleep ' | - |
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Oh heart of mine I have to carry here | P |
Will you not let me rest a little while | T |
A space 'mid doubtful fight and doubtful fear | N |
A little space to see the Mother's smile | T |
To stretch my hands out to her and possess | G |
No sense of aught but of her loveliness | G |
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Ah just this power to feel how she is fair | U |
Means just the power to see how foul life is | G |
How can I linger in the sacred air | U |
And taste the pure wine of the dear sun's kiss | G |
When in the outer dark my brothers moan | Q |
Nor even guess the joys that I have known | Q |
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Back the least soldier goes To jar and fret | V |
To hope uncrowned faith tried love wounded sore | W |
To prayers that never have been answered yet | V |
To dreams that must be dreams for evermore | W |
To all that after all is far more dear | N |
Than all the joys of all the changing year | N |
Edith Nesbit
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