At Utter Loaf Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCC A DEEDCC A FGFGGGG H IJIJKKK H GLMGHGHH| I | A |
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| An afternoon as ripe with heat | B |
| As might the golden pippin be | C |
| With mellowness if at my feet | B |
| It dropped now from the apple tree | C |
| My hammock swings in lazily | C |
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| II | A |
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| The boughs about me spread a shade | D |
| That shields me from the sun but weaves | E |
| With breezy shuttles through the leaves | E |
| Blue rifts of skies to gleam and fade | D |
| Upon the eyes that only see | C |
| Just of themselves all drowsily | C |
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| III | A |
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| Above me drifts the fallen skein | F |
| Of some tired spider looped and blown | G |
| As fragile as a strand of rain | F |
| Across the air and upward thrown | G |
| By breaths of hayfields newly mown | G |
| So glimmering it is and fine | G |
| I doubt these drowsy eyes of mine | G |
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| IV | H |
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| Far off and faint as voices pent | I |
| In mines and heard from underground | J |
| Come murmurs as of discontent | I |
| And clamorings of sullen sound | J |
| The city sends me as I guess | K |
| To vex me though they do but bless | K |
| Me in my drowsy fastnesses | K |
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| V | H |
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| I have no care I only know | G |
| My hammock hides and holds me here | L |
| In lands of shade a prisoner | M |
| While lazily the breezes blow | G |
| Light leaves of sunshine over me | H |
| And back and forth and to and fro | G |
| I swing enwrapped in some hushed glee | H |
| Smiling at all things drowsily | H |
James Whitcomb Riley
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