A Summer Afternoon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL HMDM| A languid atmosphere a lazy breeze | A |
| With labored respiration moves the wheat | B |
| From distant reaches till the golden seas | A |
| Break in crisp whispers at my feet | B |
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| My book neglected of an idle mind | C |
| Hides for a moment from the eyes of men | D |
| Or lightly opened by a critic wind | C |
| Affrightedly reviews itself again | D |
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| Off through the haze that dances in the shine | E |
| The warm sun showers in the open glade | F |
| The forest lies a silhouette design | E |
| Dimmed through and through with shade | F |
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| A dreamy day and tranquilly I lie | G |
| At anchor from all storms of mental strain | H |
| With absent vision gazing at the sky | G |
| Like one that hears it rain | H |
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| The Katydid so boisterous last night | I |
| Clinging inverted in uneasy poise | J |
| Beneath a wheat blade has forgotten quite | I |
| If Katy DID or DIDN'T make a noise | J |
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| The twitter sometimes of a wayward bird | K |
| That checks the song abruptly at the sound | L |
| And mildly chiding echoes that have stirred | K |
| Sink into silence all the more profound | L |
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| And drowsily I hear the plaintive strain | H |
| Of some poor dove Why I can scarcely keep | M |
| My heavy eyelids there it is again | D |
| Coo coo I mustn't Coo coo fall asleep | M |
James Whitcomb Riley
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