January Jumps About Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCD EFGFHF IJKLMJ ANAOPOQ RSTSMEMS UMVMMWAW XYZYXA2LV EMOMB2M C2ED2EE2E EXUXPF2XF2 G2H2RH2EI2EI2 EJ2K2J2K2J2L2J2January jumps about | A |
in the frying pan | B |
trying to heat | C |
his frozen feet | C |
like a Canadian | D |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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