A Fruit Piece Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BC DD EF FF FF GG HH II FF JJ FF KK| The afternoon of summer folds | A |
| Its warm arms round the marigolds | A |
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| And with its gleaming fingers pets | B |
| The watered pinks and violets | C |
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| That from the casement vases spill | D |
| Over the cottage window sill | D |
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| Their fragrance down the garden walks | E |
| Where droop the dry mouthed hollyhocks | F |
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| How vividly the sunshine scrawls | F |
| The grape vine shadows on the walls | F |
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| How like a truant swings the breeze | F |
| In high boughs of the apple trees | F |
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| The slender 'free stone' lifts aloof | G |
| Full languidly above the roof | G |
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| A hoard of fruitage stamped with gold | H |
| And precious mintings manifold | H |
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| High up through curled green leaves a pear | I |
| Hangs hot with ripeness here and there | I |
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| Beneath the sagging trellisings | F |
| In lush lack lustre clusterings | F |
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| Great torpid grapes all fattened through | J |
| With moon and sunshine shade and dew | J |
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| Until their swollen girths express | F |
| But forms of limp deliciousness | F |
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| Drugged to an indolence divine | K |
| With heaven's own sacramental wine | K |
James Whitcomb Riley
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