A Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHG IJJI KIIK| Talk not of sad November when a day | A |
| Of warm glad sunshine fills the sky of noon | B |
| And a wind borrowed from some morn of June | B |
| Stirs the brown grasses and the leafless spray | A |
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| On the unfrosted pool the pillared pines | C |
| Lay their long shafts of shadow the small rill | D |
| Singing a pleasant song of summer still | D |
| A line of silver down the hill slope shines | C |
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| Hushed the bird voices and the hum of bees | E |
| In the thin grass the crickets pipe no more | F |
| But still the squirrel hoards his winter store | F |
| And drops his nut shells from the shag bark trees | E |
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| Softly the dark green hemlocks whisper high | G |
| Above the spires of yellowing larches show | H |
| Where the woodpecker and home loving crow | H |
| And jay and nut hatch winter s threat defy | G |
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| O gracious beauty ever new and old | I |
| O sights and sounds of nature doubly dear | J |
| When the low sunshine warns the closing year | J |
| Of snow blown fields and waves of Arctic cold | I |
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| Close to my heart I fold each lovely thing | K |
| The sweet day yields and not disconsolate | I |
| With the calm patience of the woods I wait | I |
| For leaf and blossom when God gives us Spring | K |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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