The Reapers In Autumn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFGBHIJKLMNOPQRSTUV| Soon as the morning trembles o'er the sky | A |
| And unperceived unfolds the spreading day | B |
| Before the ripen'd field the reapers stand | C |
| In fair array | B |
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| At once they stoop and swell the lusty sheaves | D |
| While through their cheerful band the rural talk | E |
| The rural scandal and the rural jest | F |
| Fly harmless to deceive the tedious time | G |
| And steal unfelt the sultry hours away | B |
| Behind the master walks builds up the shocks | H |
| And conscious glancing oft on every side | I |
| His sated eye feels his heart heave with joy | J |
| The gleaners spread around and here and there | K |
| Spike after spike their scanty harvest pick | L |
| Be not too narrow husbandman but fling | M |
| From the full sheaf with charitable stealth | N |
| The liberal handful Think oh think | O |
| How good the God of harvest is to you | P |
| Who pours abundance o'er your flowing fields | Q |
| While these unhappy partners of your kind | R |
| Wide hover round you like the fowls of heaven | S |
| And ask their humble dole The various turns | T |
| Of fortune ponder that your sons may want | U |
| What now with hard reluctance faint ye give | V |
James Thomson
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