Description Of A Summer's Eve Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFGEEHHIJKK LLKKMMNNOOPP KKQQKKKKRRLLSSQQTTUU NN| Down the sultry arc of day | A |
| The burning wheels have urged their way | A |
| And eve along the western skies | B |
| Sheds her intermingling dyes | B |
| Down the deep the miry lane | C |
| Creaking comes the empty wain | C |
| And driver on the shaft horse sits | D |
| Whistling now and then by fits | D |
| And oft with his accustom'd call | E |
| Urging on the sluggish Ball | E |
| The barn is still the master's gone | F |
| And thresher puts his jacket on | G |
| While Dick upon the ladder tall | E |
| Nails the dead kite to the wall | E |
| Here comes shepherd Jack at last | H |
| He has penn'd the sheepcote fast | H |
| For 't was but two nights before | I |
| A lamb was eaten on the moor | J |
| His empty wallet Rover carries | K |
| Nor for Jack when near home tarries | K |
| With lolling tongue he runs to try | L |
| If the horse trough be not dry | L |
| The milk is settled in the pans | K |
| And supper messes in the cans | K |
| In the hovel carts are wheel'd | M |
| And both the colts are drove a field | M |
| The horses are all bedded up | N |
| And the ewe is with the tup | N |
| The snare for Mister Fox is set | O |
| The leaven laid the thatching wet | O |
| And Bess has slink'd away to talk | P |
| With Roger in the holly walk | P |
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| Now on the settle all but Bess | K |
| Are set to eat their supper mess | K |
| And little Tom and roguish Kate | Q |
| Are swinging on the meadow gate | Q |
| Now they chat of various things | K |
| Of taxes ministers and kings | K |
| Or else tell all the village news | K |
| How madam did the squire refuse | K |
| How parson on his tithes was bent | R |
| And landlord oft distrain'd for rent | R |
| Thus do they talk till in the sky | L |
| The pale eyed moon is mounted high | L |
| And from the alehouse drunken Ned | S |
| Had reel'd then hasten all to bed | S |
| The mistress sees that lazy Kate | Q |
| The happing coal on kitchen grate | Q |
| Has laid while master goes throughout | T |
| Sees shutters fast the mastiff out | T |
| The candles safe the hearths all clear | U |
| And nought from thieves or fire to fear | U |
| Then both to bed together creep | N |
| And join the general troop of sleep | N |
Henry Kirk White
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