January Jumps About Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCD EFGFHF IJKLMJ ANAOPOQ RSTSMEMS UMVMMWAW XYZYXA2LV EMOMB2M C2ED2EE2E EXUXPF2XF2 G2H2RH2EI2EI2 EJ2K2J2K2J2L2J2| January jumps about | A |
| in the frying pan | B |
| trying to heat | C |
| his frozen feet | C |
| like a Canadian | D |
| - | |
| February scuttles under | E |
| any dish's lid | F |
| and she thinks she's dry because she's | G |
| thoroughly well hid | F |
| but it still rains all month long | H |
| and it always did | F |
| - | |
| March sits in the bath tub | I |
| with the taps turned on | J |
| Hot and cold cold or not | K |
| Has the Winter gone | L |
| In like a lion out like a lamb | M |
| March on march on march on | J |
| - | |
| April slips about | A |
| sometimes indoors | N |
| and sometimes out | A |
| sometimes sheltering from a little | O |
| shower of bright rain | P |
| in an empty milk bottle | O |
| then dashing out again | Q |
| - | |
| May she hides nowhere | R |
| nowhere at all | S |
| Proud as a peacock | T |
| walking by a wall | S |
| The Maytime O the Maytime | M |
| full of leaf and flower | E |
| The Maytime O the Maytime | M |
| is the loveliest of all | S |
| - | |
| June discards his shirt and | U |
| trousers by the stream | M |
| and takes the first dip of the year | V |
| into a jug of cream | M |
| June is the gay time | M |
| of every girl and boy | W |
| who run about and sing and shout | A |
| in pardonable joy | W |
| - | |
| July by the sea | X |
| sits dabbling with sand | Y |
| letting it run out of | Z |
| her rather lazy hand | Y |
| and sometimes she sadly | X |
| thinks As I sit here | A2 |
| ah more than half the year is gone | L |
| the evanescent year | V |
| - | |
| August by an emperor | E |
| was given his great name | M |
| It is gold and purple | O |
| like a Hall of Fame | M |
| I have known it rather cold | B2 |
| and wettish all the same | M |
| - | |
| September lies in shadows | C2 |
| of the fading summer | E |
| hearing in the distance | D2 |
| the silver horns of winter | E |
| and not very far off | E2 |
| the coming autumn drummer | E |
| - | |
| October October | E |
| apples on the tree | X |
| the Partridge in the Wood and | U |
| the big winds at sea | X |
| the mud beginning in the lane | P |
| the berries bright and red | F2 |
| and the big tree wildly | X |
| tossing its old head | F2 |
| - | |
| November when the fires | G2 |
| love to burn and leaves | H2 |
| flit about and fill the air | R |
| where the old tree grieves | H2 |
| November November | E |
| its name is like a star | I2 |
| glittering on many things that were | E |
| but few things that are | I2 |
| - | |
| Twelfth and last December | E |
| a few weeks away | J2 |
| we hear the silver bells | K2 |
| of the stag and the sleigh | J2 |
| flying from the tundras | K2 |
| far far away | J2 |
| bringing to us all the gift | L2 |
| of our Christmas Day | J2 |
George Barker
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