August Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBA CDECDE| Why should this Negro insolently stride | A |
| Down the red noonday on such noiseless feet | B |
| Piled in his barrow tawnier than wheat | B |
| Lie heaps of smouldering daisies sombre eyed | A |
| Their copper petals shriveled up with pride | A |
| Hot with a superfluity of heat | B |
| Like a great brazier borne along the street | B |
| By captive leopards black and burning pied | A |
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| Are there no water lilies smooth as cream | C |
| With long stems dripping crystal Are there none | D |
| Like those white lilies luminous and cool | E |
| Plucked from some hemlock darkened northern stream | C |
| By fair haired swimmers diving where the sun | D |
| Scarce warms the surface of the deepest pool | E |
Elinor Morton Wylie
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