Evening On The Farm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABAB CCDCD AAEAE FFAFA AADAG HHIHJ KKLKL JJMJM NNANA AAJAJ JJJJJ OOAOA JJCJC BBJJJFrom out the hills where twilight stands | A |
Above the shadowy pasture lands | A |
With strained and strident cry | B |
Beneath pale skies that sunset bands | A |
The bull bats fly | B |
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A cloud hangs over strange of shape | C |
And colored like the half ripe grape | C |
Seems some uneven stain | D |
On heaven's azure thin as crape | C |
And blue as rain | D |
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By ways that sunset's sardonyx | A |
O'erflares and gates the farm boy clicks | A |
Through which the cattle came | E |
The mullein stalks seem giant wicks | A |
Of downy flame | E |
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From woods no glimmer enters in | F |
Above the streams that wandering win | F |
To where the wood pool bids | A |
Those haunters of the dusk begin | F |
The katydids | A |
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Adown the dark the firefly marks | A |
Its flight in gold and emerald sparks | A |
And loosened from his chain | D |
The shaggy mastiff bounds and barks | A |
And barks again | G |
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Each breeze brings scents of hill heaped hay | H |
And now an owlet far away | H |
Cries twice or thrice 'T o o w h o o' | I |
And cool dim moths of mottled gray | H |
Flit through the dew | J |
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The silence sounds its frog bassoon | K |
Where on the woodland creek's lagoon | K |
Pale as a ghostly girl | L |
Lost 'mid the trees looks down the moon | K |
With face of pearl | L |
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Within the shed where logs late hewed | J |
Smell forest sweet and chips of wood | J |
Make blurs of white and brown | M |
The brood hen cuddles her warm brood | J |
Of teetering down | M |
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The clattering guineas in the tree | N |
Din for a time and quietly | N |
The henhouse near the fence | A |
Sleeps save for some brief rivalry | N |
Of cocks and hens | A |
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A cowbell tinkles by the rails | A |
Where streaming white in foaming pails | A |
Milk makes an uddery sound | J |
While overhead the black bat trails | A |
Around and round | J |
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The night is still The slow cows chew | J |
A drowsy cud The bird that flew | J |
And sang is in its nest | J |
It is the time of falling dew | J |
Of dreams and rest | J |
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The beehives sleep and round the walk | O |
The garden path from stalk to stalk | O |
The bungling beetle booms | A |
Where two soft shadows stand and talk | O |
Among the blooms | A |
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The stars are thick the light is dead | J |
That dyed the west and Drowsyhead | J |
Tuning his cricket pipe | C |
Nods and some apple round and red | J |
Drops over ripe | C |
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Now down the road that shambles by | B |
A window shining like an eye | B |
Through climbing rose and gourd | J |
Shows Age and young Rusticity | J |
Seated at board | J |
Madison Julius Cawein
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