A Gray Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDEDC A FGHIIIH A JJKLLLK M NNOPPPO M QQLLLLL M DDRSSSR M MMTUUUT| I | A |
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| Long vollies of wind and of rain | B |
| And the rain on the drizzled pane | B |
| And the eve falls chill and murk | C |
| But on yesterday's eve I know | D |
| How a horned moon's thorn like bow | E |
| Stabbed rosy thro' gold and thro' glow | D |
| Like a rich barbaric dirk | C |
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| II | A |
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| Now thick throats of the snapdragons | F |
| Who hold in their hues cool dawns | G |
| Which a healthy yellow paints | H |
| Are filled with a sweet rain fine | I |
| Of a jaunty jubilant shine | I |
| A faery vat of rare wine | I |
| Which the honey thinly taints | H |
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| III | A |
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| Now dabble the poppies shrink | J |
| And the coxcomb and the pink | J |
| While the candytuft's damp crown | K |
| Droops dribbled low bowed i' the wet | L |
| And long spikes o' the mignonette | L |
| Little musk sacks open set | L |
| Which the dripping o' dew drags down | K |
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| IV | M |
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| Stretched taunt on the blades of grass | N |
| Like a gossamer fibered glass | N |
| Which the garden spider spun | O |
| The web where the round rain clings | P |
| In its middle sagging swings | P |
| A hammock for Elfin things | P |
| When the stars succeed the sun | O |
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| V | M |
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| And mark where the pale gourd grows | Q |
| Up high as the clambering rose | Q |
| How that tiger moth is pressed | L |
| To the wide leaf's underside | L |
| And I know where the red wasps hide | L |
| And the wild bees who defied | L |
| The first strong gusts distressed | L |
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| VI | M |
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| Yet I feel that the gray will blow | D |
| Aside for an afterglow | D |
| And a breeze on a sudden toss | R |
| Drenched boughs to a pattering show'r | S |
| Athwart the red dusk in a glow'r | S |
| Big drops heard hard on each flow'r | S |
| On the grass and the flowering moss | R |
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| VII | M |
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| And then for a minute may be | M |
| A pearl hollow worn of the sea | M |
| A glimmer of moon will smile | T |
| Cool stars rinsed clean on the dusk | U |
| A freshness of gathering musk | U |
| O'er the showery lawns as brusk | U |
| As spice from an Indian isle | T |
Madison Julius Cawein
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