Time Of Clearer Twitterings Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDDDEEFFEEGH A IIDDJJKKJJEELLHH A MMJJNNEEOJEEHHEE JPPPEEQQEEJJJJJJ| I | A |
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| Time of crisp and tawny leaves | B |
| And of tarnished harvest sheaves | B |
| And of dusty grasses weeds | C |
| Thistles with their tufted seeds | C |
| Voyaging the Autumn breeze | D |
| Like as fairy argosies | D |
| Time of quicker flash of wings | D |
| And of clearer twitterings | D |
| In the grove or deeper shade | E |
| Of the tangled everglade | E |
| Where the spotted water snake | F |
| Coils him in the sunniest brake | F |
| And the bittern as in fright | E |
| Darts in sudden slanting flight | E |
| Southward while the startled crane | G |
| Films his eyes in dreams again | H |
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| II | A |
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| Down along the dwindled creek | I |
| We go loitering We speak | I |
| Only with old questionings | D |
| Of the dear remembered things | D |
| Of the days of long ago | J |
| When the stream seemed thus and so | J |
| In our boyish eyes The bank | K |
| Greener then through rank on rank | K |
| Of the mottled sycamores | J |
| Touching tops across the shores | J |
| Here the hazel thicket stood | E |
| There the almost pathless wood | E |
| Where the shellbark hickory tree | L |
| Rained its wealth on you and me | L |
| Autumn as you loved us then | H |
| Take us to your heart again | H |
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| III | A |
| - | |
| Season halest of the year | M |
| How the zestful atmosphere | M |
| Nettles blood and brain and smites | J |
| Into life the old delights | J |
| We have tasted in our youth | N |
| And our graver years forsooth | N |
| How again the boyish heart | E |
| Leaps to see the chipmunk start | E |
| From the brush and sleek the sun | O |
| Very beauty as he runs | J |
| How again a subtle hint | E |
| Of crushed pennyroyal or mint | E |
| Sends us on our knees as when | H |
| We were truant boys of ten | H |
| Brown marauders of the wood | E |
| Merrier than Robin Hood | E |
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| IV | - |
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| Ah will any minstrel say | J |
| In his sweetest roundelay | P |
| What is sweeter after all | P |
| Than black haws in early Fall | P |
| Fruit so sweet the frost first sat | E |
| Dainty toothed and nibbled at | E |
| And will any poet sing | Q |
| Of a lusher richer thing | Q |
| Than a ripe May apple rolled | E |
| Like a pulpy lump of gold | E |
| Under thumb and finger tips | J |
| And poured molten through the lips | J |
| Go ye bards of classic themes | J |
| Pipe your songs by classic streams | J |
| I would twang the redbird's wings | J |
| In the thicket while he sings | J |
James Whitcomb Riley
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