July Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAA CDDCC EFFFF GHHGI JFFJJ FFFFA KLLKK FFFFF MAAMM NFFNNNow 'tis the time when tall | A |
The long blue torches of the bellflower gleam | B |
Among the trees and by the wooded stream | B |
In many a fragrant ball | A |
Blooms of the button bush fall | A |
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Let us go forth and seek | C |
Woods where the wild plums redden and the beech | D |
Plumps its packed burs and swelling just in reach | D |
The pawpaw emerald sleek | C |
Ripens along the creek | C |
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Now 'tis the time when ways | E |
Of glimmering green flaunt white the misty plumes | F |
Of the black cohosh and through bramble glooms | F |
A blur of orange rays | F |
The butterfly blossoms blaze | F |
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Let us go forth and hear | G |
The spiral music that the locusts beat | H |
And that small spray of sound so grassy sweet | H |
Dear to a country ear | G |
The cricket's summer cheer | I |
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Now golden celandine | J |
Is hairy hung with silvery sacks of seeds | F |
And bugled o'er with freckled gold like beads | F |
Beneath the fox grape vine | J |
The jewel weed's blossoms shine | J |
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Let us go forth and see | F |
The dragon and the butterfly like gems | F |
Spangling the sunbeams and the clover stems | F |
Weighed down by many a bee | F |
Nodding mellifluously | A |
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Now morns are full of song | K |
The catbird and the redbird and the jay | L |
Upon the hilltops rouse the rosy day | L |
Who dewy blithe and strong | K |
Lures their wild wings along | K |
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Now noons are full of dreams | F |
The clouds of heaven and the wandering breeze | F |
Follow a vision and the flowers and trees | F |
The hills and fields and streams | F |
Are lapped in mystic gleams | F |
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The nights are full of love | M |
The stars and moon take up the golden tale | A |
Of the sunk sun and passionate and pale | A |
Mixing their fires above | M |
Grow eloquent thereof | M |
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Such days are like a sigh | N |
That beauty heaves from a full heart of bliss | F |
Such nights are like the sweetness of a kiss | F |
On lips that half deny | N |
The warm lips of July | N |
Madison Julius Cawein
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