Katydids And The Moon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCABDEFGEHIJJIJJE K LMLMMNLL GGIOOIOO| Summer evenings when it's warm | A |
| In the yard we sit and swing | B |
| And it's better than a farm | C |
| Watching how the fireflies swarm | A |
| Listening to the crickets sing | B |
| And the katydids that cry | D |
| 'Katy did n't Katy did ' | E |
| In the trees and flowers hid | F |
| So I ask my father 'Why | G |
| What's the thing she did n't do ' | E |
| For he told me that he knew | H |
| 'Katy did n't like to worry | I |
| But she did so like to talk | J |
| Gossip of herself and talk | J |
| Katy did n't like to hurry | I |
| But she did so like to walk | J |
| Saunter by herself and walk | J |
| How is that now for a story ' | E |
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| II | K |
| - | |
| And one night when it was fine | L |
| And the moon peeped through the trees | M |
| And the scented jessamine vine | L |
| Swung its blossoms in the breeze | M |
| Full of sleeping honeybees | M |
| 'That's Old Sister Moon ' he said | N |
| 'She's a perfect simpleton | L |
| Scared to death of Old Man Sun | L |
| All day long she hides her head ' | - |
| And I asked my father why | G |
| And he made me this reply | G |
| 'Sister Moon's old eyes are weary | I |
| Her old eyes are very weak | O |
| Poor and old and worn and weak | O |
| And the old Sun with his cheery | I |
| Looks just makes them leak and leak | O |
| Like an old can leak and leak | O |
| That's the reason why my dearie ' | - |
Madison Julius Cawein
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