The "stay-at-home's" Plaint Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJKLK MNONPQJQ PRSRJTMT UVDVWXJJ YZJZA2B2JB2 JC2D2C2E2F2JF2 AG2JH2JJAJThe Spring has grown to Summer | A |
The sun is fierce and high | B |
The city shrinks and withers | C |
Beneath the burning sky | B |
Ailantus trees are fragrant | D |
And thicker shadows cast | E |
Where berry girls with voices shrill | F |
And watering carts go past | E |
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In offices like ovens | G |
We sit without our coats | H |
Our cuffs are moist and shapeless | I |
No collars binds our throats | H |
We carry huge umbrellas | J |
On Broad Street and on Wall | K |
Oh how thermometers go up | L |
And oh how stocks do fall | K |
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The nights are full of music | M |
Melodious Teuton troops | N |
Beguile us calmly smoking | O |
On balconies and stoops | N |
With eyes half shut and dreamy | P |
We watch the fire flies' spark | Q |
And image far off faces | J |
As day dies into dark | Q |
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The avenue is lonely | P |
The houses choked with dust | R |
The shutters barred and bolted | S |
The bell knobs all a rust | R |
No blossom like spring dresses | J |
No faces young and fair | T |
From Dickel's to The Brunswick | M |
No promenader there | T |
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The girls we used to walk with | U |
Are far away alas | V |
The feet that kissed its pavement | D |
Are deep in country grass | V |
Along the scented hedge rows | W |
Among the green old trees | X |
Are blooming city faces | J |
'Neath rosy lined pongees | J |
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They're cottaging at Newport | Y |
They're bathing at Cape May | Z |
In Saratoga's ball rooms | J |
They dance the hours away | Z |
Their voices through the quiet | A2 |
Of haunted Catskill break | B2 |
Or rouse those dreamy dryads | J |
The nymphs of Echo Lake | B2 |
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The hands we've led through Germans | J |
And squeezed perchance of yore | C2 |
Now deftly grasp the bridle | D2 |
The mallet and the oar | C2 |
The eyes that wrought our ruin | E2 |
On other men look down | F2 |
We're but the broken play things | J |
They've left behind in town | F2 |
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Oh happy Gran'dame Nature | A |
Whose wandering children come | G2 |
To light with happy faces | J |
The dear old mother home | H2 |
Be tender with our darlings | J |
Each merry maiden bears | J |
Such love and longing with her | A |
Men's lives are wrapped in theirs | J |
George Augustus Baker, Jr.
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