Knee-deep In June Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBAD EEFGHIJKLFME NOPPOEQAJEERRSS JJOOTTOUUKK VKVSSSSSSSSSUU WWXEEUXUUEE EEFJSSFUJUPP UUSSYZUUWWA2OA2B2OOO B2| Tell you what I like the best | A |
| 'Long about knee deep in June | B |
| 'Bout the time strawberries melts | C |
| On the vine some afternoon | B |
| Like to jes' git out and rest | A |
| And not work at nothin' else | D |
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| Orchard's where I'd ruther be | E |
| Needn't fence it in fer me | E |
| Jes' the whole sky overhead | F |
| And the whole airth underneath | G |
| Sort o' so's a man kin breathe | H |
| Like he ort and kind o' has | I |
| Elbow room to keerlessly | J |
| Sprawl out len'thways on the grass | K |
| Where the shadders thick and soft | L |
| As the kivvers on the bed | F |
| Mother fixes in the loft | M |
| Allus when they's company | E |
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| Jes' a sort o' lazin there | N |
| S'lazy 'at you peek and peer | O |
| Through the wavin' leaves above | P |
| Like a feller 'ats in love | P |
| And don't know it ner don't keer | O |
| Ever'thing you hear and see | E |
| Got some sort o' interest | Q |
| Maybe find a bluebird's nest | A |
| Tucked up there conveenently | J |
| Fer the boy 'at's ap' to be | E |
| Up some other apple tree | E |
| Watch the swallers skootin' past | R |
| Bout as peert as you could ast | R |
| Er the Bob white raise and whiz | S |
| Where some other's whistle is | S |
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| Ketch a shadder down below | J |
| And look up to find the crow | J |
| Er a hawk away up there | O |
| 'Pearantly froze in the air | O |
| Hear the old hen squawk and squat | T |
| Over ever' chick she's got | T |
| Suddent like and she knows where | O |
| That air hawk is well as you | U |
| You jes' bet yer life she do | U |
| Eyes a glitterin' like glass | K |
| Waitin' till he makes a pass | K |
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| Pee wees wingin' to express | V |
| My opinion 's second class | K |
| Yit you'll hear 'em more er less | V |
| Sapsucks gittin' down to biz | S |
| Weedin' out the lonesomeness | S |
| Mr Bluejay full o' sass | S |
| In them baseball clothes o' his | S |
| Sportin' round the orchad jes' | S |
| Like he owned the premises | S |
| Sun out in the fields kin sizz | S |
| But flat on yer back I guess | S |
| In the shade's where glory is | S |
| That's jes' what I'd like to do | U |
| Stiddy fer a year er two | U |
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| Plague Ef they ain't somepin' in | W |
| Work 'at kind o' goes ag'in' | W |
| My convictions 'long about | X |
| Here in June especially | E |
| Under some ole apple tree | E |
| Jes' a restin through and through | U |
| I could git along without | X |
| Nothin' else at all to do | U |
| Only jes' a wishin' you | U |
| Wuz a gittin' there like me | E |
| And June wuz eternity | E |
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| Lay out there and try to see | E |
| Jes' how lazy you kin be | E |
| Tumble round and souse yer head | F |
| In the clover bloom er pull | J |
| Yer straw hat acrost yer eyes | S |
| And peek through it at the skies | S |
| Thinkin' of old chums 'ats dead | F |
| Maybe smilin' back at you | U |
| In betwixt the beautiful | J |
| Clouds o'gold and white and blue | U |
| Month a man kin railly love | P |
| June you know I'm talkin' of | P |
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| March ain't never nothin' new | U |
| April's altogether too | U |
| Brash fer me and May I jes' | S |
| 'Bominate its promises | S |
| Little hints o' sunshine and | Y |
| Green around the timber land | Z |
| A few blossoms and a few | U |
| Chip birds and a sprout er two | U |
| Drap asleep and it turns in | W |
| Fore daylight and snows ag'in | W |
| But when June comes Clear my th'oat | A2 |
| With wild honey Rench my hair | O |
| In the dew And hold my coat | A2 |
| Whoop out loud And th'ow my hat | B2 |
| June wants me and I'm to spare | O |
| Spread them shadders anywhere | O |
| I'll get down and waller there | O |
| And obleeged to you at that | B2 |
James Whitcomb Riley
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