In The Afternoon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBA CDEDDC FGHGGH IJIJJI| You in the hammock and I near by | A |
| Was trying to read and to swing you too | B |
| And the green of the sward was so kind to the eye | A |
| And the shade of the maples so cool and blue | B |
| That often I looked from the book to you | B |
| To say as much with a sigh | A |
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| You in the hammock The book we'd brought | C |
| From the parlor to read in the open air | D |
| Something of love and of Launcelot | E |
| And Guinevere I believe was there | D |
| But the afternoon it was far more fair | D |
| Than the poem was I thought | C |
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| You in the hammock and on and on | F |
| I droned and droned through the rhythmic stuff | G |
| But with always a half of my vision gone | H |
| Over the top of the page enough | G |
| To caressingly gaze at you swathed in the fluff | G |
| Of your hair and your odorous lawn | H |
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| You in the hammock and that was a year | I |
| Fully a year ago I guess | J |
| And what do we care for their Guinevere | I |
| And her Launcelot and their lordliness | J |
| You in the hammock still and Yes | J |
| Kiss me again my dear | I |
James Whitcomb Riley
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