Time Of Clearer Twitterings Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDDDEEFFEEGH A IIDDJJKKJJEELLHH A MMJJNNEEOJEEHHEE JPPPEEQQEEJJJJJJ

IA
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Time of crisp and tawny leavesB
And of tarnished harvest sheavesB
And of dusty grasses weedsC
Thistles with their tufted seedsC
Voyaging the Autumn breezeD
Like as fairy argosiesD
Time of quicker flash of wingsD
And of clearer twitteringsD
In the grove or deeper shadeE
Of the tangled evergladeE
Where the spotted water snakeF
Coils him in the sunniest brakeF
And the bittern as in frightE
Darts in sudden slanting flightE
Southward while the startled craneG
Films his eyes in dreams againH
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IIA
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Down along the dwindled creekI
We go loitering We speakI
Only with old questioningsD
Of the dear remembered thingsD
Of the days of long agoJ
When the stream seemed thus and soJ
In our boyish eyes The bankK
Greener then through rank on rankK
Of the mottled sycamoresJ
Touching tops across the shoresJ
Here the hazel thicket stoodE
There the almost pathless woodE
Where the shellbark hickory treeL
Rained its wealth on you and meL
Autumn as you loved us thenH
Take us to your heart againH
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IIIA
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Season halest of the yearM
How the zestful atmosphereM
Nettles blood and brain and smitesJ
Into life the old delightsJ
We have tasted in our youthN
And our graver years forsoothN
How again the boyish heartE
Leaps to see the chipmunk startE
From the brush and sleek the sunO
Very beauty as he runsJ
How again a subtle hintE
Of crushed pennyroyal or mintE
Sends us on our knees as whenH
We were truant boys of tenH
Brown marauders of the woodE
Merrier than Robin HoodE
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Ah will any minstrel sayJ
In his sweetest roundelayP
What is sweeter after allP
Than black haws in early FallP
Fruit so sweet the frost first satE
Dainty toothed and nibbled atE
And will any poet singQ
Of a lusher richer thingQ
Than a ripe May apple rolledE
Like a pulpy lump of goldE
Under thumb and finger tipsJ
And poured molten through the lipsJ
Go ye bards of classic themesJ
Pipe your songs by classic streamsJ
I would twang the redbird's wingsJ
In the thicket while he singsJ

James Whitcomb Riley



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