An Idyl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BBBB CDED FGFG HIHI JKJK LBLB| Upon a gnarly knotty limb | A |
| That fought the current's crest | B |
| Where shocks of reeds peeped o'er the brim | A |
| Wild wasps had glued their nest | B |
| - | |
| And in a sprawling cypress' grot | B |
| Sheltered and safe from flood | B |
| Dirt daubers each had chosen a spot | B |
| To shape his house of mud | B |
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| In a warm crevice of the bark | C |
| A basking scorpion clung | D |
| With bright blue tail and red rimmed eyes | E |
| And yellow twinkling tongue | D |
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| A lunging trout flashed in the sun | F |
| To do some petty slaughter | G |
| And set the spiders all a run | F |
| On little stilts of water | G |
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| Toward noon upon the swamp there stole | H |
| A deep cathedral hush | I |
| Save where from sun splocht bough and bole | H |
| Sweet thrush replied to thrush | I |
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| An angler came to cast his fly | J |
| Beneath a baffling tree | K |
| I smiled when I had caught his eye | J |
| And he smiled back at me | K |
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| When stretched beside a shady elm | L |
| I watched the dozy heat | B |
| Nature was moving in her realm | L |
| For I could hear her feet | B |
John Charles Mcneill
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