Within The Circuit Of This Plodding Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOBPQRS TUNVNWXYZA2| Within the circuit of this plodding life | A |
| There enter moments of an azure hue | B |
| Untarnished fair as is the violet | C |
| Or anemone when the spring strews them | D |
| By some meandering rivulet which make | E |
| The best philosophy untrue that aims | F |
| But to console man for his grievances | G |
| I have remembered when the winter came | H |
| High in my chamber in the frosty nights | I |
| When in the still light of the cheerful moon | J |
| On every twig and rail and jutting spout | K |
| The icy spears were adding to their length | L |
| Against the arrows of the coming sun | M |
| How in the shimmering noon of summer past | N |
| Some unrecorded beam slanted across | O |
| The upland pastures where the Johnswort grew | B |
| Or heard amid the verdure of my mind | P |
| The bee's long smothered hum on the blue flag | Q |
| Loitering amidst the mead or busy rill | R |
| Which now through all its course stands still and dumb | S |
| Its own memorial purling at its play | T |
| Along the slopes and through the meadows next | U |
| Until its youthful sound was hushed at last | N |
| In the staid current of the lowland stream | V |
| Or seen the furrows shine but late upturned | N |
| And where the fieldfare followed in the rear | W |
| When all the fields around lay bound and hoar | X |
| Beneath a thick integument of snow | Y |
| So by God's cheap economy made rich | Z |
| To go upon my winter's task again | A2 |
Henry David Thoreau
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