June At Woodruff Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGHH IIJJKKLL MMNNOOPP QRMMSSMM TUSVDDMM| Out at Woodruff Place afar | A |
| From the city's glare and jar | A |
| With the leafy trees instead | B |
| Of the awnings overhead | B |
| With the shadows cool and sweet | C |
| For the fever of the street | C |
| With the silence like a prayer | D |
| Breathing round us everywhere | D |
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| Gracious anchorage at last | E |
| From the billows of the vast | E |
| Tide of life that comes and goes | F |
| Whence and where nobody knows | F |
| Moving like a skeptic's thought | G |
| Out of nowhere into naught | G |
| Touch and tame us with thy grace | H |
| Placid calm of Woodruff Place | H |
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| Weave a wreath of beechen leaves | I |
| For the brow that throbs and grieves | I |
| O'er the ledger bloody lined | J |
| 'Neath the sun struck window blind | J |
| Send the breath of woodland bloom | K |
| Through the sick man's prison room | K |
| Till his old farm home shall swim | L |
| Sweet in mind to hearten him | L |
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| Out at Woodruff Place the Muse | M |
| Dips her sandal in the dews | M |
| Sacredly as night and dawn | N |
| Baptize lilied grove and lawn | N |
| Woody path or paven way | O |
| She doth haunt them night and day | O |
| Sun or moonlight through the trees | P |
| To her eyes are melodies | P |
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| Swinging lanterns twinkling clear | Q |
| Through night scenes are songs to her | R |
| Tinted lilts and choiring hues | M |
| Blent with children's glad halloos | M |
| Then belated lays that fade | S |
| Into midnight's serenade | S |
| Vine like words and zithern strings | M |
| Twined through ali her slumberings | M |
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| Blessed be each hearthstone set | T |
| Neighboring the violet | U |
| Blessed every rooftree prayed | S |
| Over by the beech's shadel | V |
| Blessed doorway opening where | D |
| We may look on Nature there | D |
| Hand to hand and face to face | M |
| Storied realm or Woodruff Place | M |
James Whitcomb Riley
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