Heat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB CDCDD E FGFG FHFHH E FFFF FFFFF I FJFJ FKFKK I FLFM FNFNN I OIOI OPOPP| Now 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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