A Sudden Shower Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKM NONP| Barefooted boys scud up the street | A |
| Or skurry under sheltering sheds | B |
| And schoolgirl faces pale and sweet | A |
| Gleam from the shawls about their heads | B |
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| Doors bang and mother voices call | C |
| From alien homes and rusty gates | D |
| Are slammed and high above it all | C |
| The thunder grim reverberates | D |
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| And then abrupt the rain the rain | E |
| The earth lies gasping and the eyes | F |
| Behind the streaming window pane | E |
| Smile at the trouble of the skies | F |
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| The highway smokes sharp echoes ring | G |
| The cattle bawl and cowbells clank | H |
| And into town comes galloping | G |
| The farmer's horse with streaming flank | H |
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| The swallow dips beneath the eaves | I |
| And flirts his plumes and folds his wings | J |
| And under the catawba leaves | I |
| The caterpillar curls and clings | J |
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| The bumble bee is pelted down | K |
| The wet stem of the hollyhock | L |
| And sullenly in spattered brown | K |
| The cricket leaps the garden walk | M |
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| Within the baby claps his hands | N |
| And crows with rapture strange and vague | O |
| Without beneath the rosebush stands | N |
| A dripping rooster on one leg | P |
James Whitcomb Riley
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