Heat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB CDCDD E FGFG FHFHH E FFFF FFFFF I FJFJ FKFKK I FLFM FNFNN I OIOI OPOPPNow is it as if Spring had never been | A |
And Winter but a memory and dream | B |
Here where the Summer stands her lap of green | C |
Heaped high with bloom and beam | B |
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Among her blackberry lilies low that lean | C |
To kiss her feet or freckle browed that stare | D |
Upon the dragonfly which slimly seen | C |
Like a blue jewel flickering in her hair | D |
Sparkles above them there | D |
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II | E |
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Knee deep among the tepid pools the cows | F |
Chew a slow cud or switch a slower tail | G |
Half sunk in sleep beneath the beechen boughs | F |
Where thin the wood gnats ail | G |
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From bloom to bloom the languid butterflies drowse | F |
The sleepy bees make hardly any sound | H |
The only things the sunrays can arouse | F |
It seems are two black beetles rolling 'round | H |
Upon the dusty ground | H |
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III | E |
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Within its channel glares the creek and shrinks | F |
Beneath whose rocks the furtive crawfish hides | F |
In stagnant places where the green frog blinks | F |
And water spider glides | F |
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Far hotter seems it for the bird that drinks | F |
The startled kingfisher that screams and flies | F |
Hotter and lonelier for the purple pinks | F |
Of weeds that bloom whose sultry perfumes rise | F |
Stifling the swooning skies | F |
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IV | I |
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From ragweed fallows rye fields heaped with sheaves | F |
From blistering rocks no moss or lichens crust | J |
And from the road where every hoof stroke heaves | F |
A cloud of burning dust | J |
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The hotness quivers making limp the leaves | F |
That loll like tongues of panting hounds The heat | K |
Is a wan wimple that the Summer weaves | F |
A veil in which she wraps as in a sheet | K |
The shriveling corn and wheat | K |
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V | I |
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Furious incessant in the weeds and briers | F |
The sawing weed bugs sing and heat begot | L |
The grasshoppers so many strident wires | F |
Staccato fiercely hot | M |
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A lash of whirling sound that never tires | F |
The locust flails the noon where harnessed Thirst | N |
Beside the road spring many a shod hoof mires | F |
Into the trough thrusts his hot head immersed | N |
'Round which cool bubbles burst | N |
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VI | I |
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The sad sweet voice of some wood spirit who | O |
Laments while watching a loved oak tree die | I |
From the deep forest comes the wood dove's coo | O |
A long lost lonely cry | I |
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Oh for a breeze a mighty wind to woo | O |
The woods to stormy laughter sow like grain | P |
The world with freshness of invisible dew | O |
And pile above far fevered hill and plain | P |
Vast bastions black with rain | P |
Madison Julius Cawein
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