The "stay-at-home's" Plaint Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJKLK MNONPQJQ PRSRJTMT UVDVWXJJ YZJZA2B2JB2 JC2D2C2E2F2JF2 AG2JH2JJAJ

The Spring has grown to SummerA
The sun is fierce and highB
The city shrinks and withersC
Beneath the burning skyB
Ailantus trees are fragrantD
And thicker shadows castE
Where berry girls with voices shrillF
And watering carts go pastE
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In offices like ovensG
We sit without our coatsH
Our cuffs are moist and shapelessI
No collars binds our throatsH
We carry huge umbrellasJ
On Broad Street and on WallK
Oh how thermometers go upL
And oh how stocks do fallK
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The nights are full of musicM
Melodious Teuton troopsN
Beguile us calmly smokingO
On balconies and stoopsN
With eyes half shut and dreamyP
We watch the fire flies' sparkQ
And image far off facesJ
As day dies into darkQ
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The avenue is lonelyP
The houses choked with dustR
The shutters barred and boltedS
The bell knobs all a rustR
No blossom like spring dressesJ
No faces young and fairT
From Dickel's to The BrunswickM
No promenader thereT
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The girls we used to walk withU
Are far away alasV
The feet that kissed its pavementD
Are deep in country grassV
Along the scented hedge rowsW
Among the green old treesX
Are blooming city facesJ
'Neath rosy lined pongeesJ
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They're cottaging at NewportY
They're bathing at Cape MayZ
In Saratoga's ball roomsJ
They dance the hours awayZ
Their voices through the quietA2
Of haunted Catskill breakB2
Or rouse those dreamy dryadsJ
The nymphs of Echo LakeB2
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The hands we've led through GermansJ
And squeezed perchance of yoreC2
Now deftly grasp the bridleD2
The mallet and the oarC2
The eyes that wrought our ruinE2
On other men look downF2
We're but the broken play thingsJ
They've left behind in townF2
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Oh happy Gran'dame NatureA
Whose wandering children comeG2
To light with happy facesJ
The dear old mother homeH2
Be tender with our darlingsJ
Each merry maiden bearsJ
Such love and longing with herA
Men's lives are wrapped in theirsJ

George Augustus Baker, Jr.



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