Midsummer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBBBBBB A CCDEEDFF A GGHIIHBB JJKLMKNN K BBOBBOEE NNPNNPMLI | A |
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The mellow smell of hollyhocks | B |
And marigolds and pinks and phlox | B |
Blends with the homely garden scents | B |
Of onions silvering into rods | B |
Of peppers scarlet with their pods | B |
And rose of all the esculents | B |
Of broad plebeian cabbages | B |
Breathing content and corpulent ease | B |
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II | A |
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The buzz of wasp and fly makes hot | C |
The spaces of the garden plot | C |
And from the orchard where the fruit | D |
Ripens and rounds or loosed with heat | E |
Rolls hornet clung before the feet | E |
One hears the veery's golden flute | D |
That mixes with the sleepy hum | F |
Of bees that drowsily go and come | F |
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III | A |
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The podded musk of gourd and vine | G |
Embower a gate of roughest pine | G |
That leads into a wood where day | H |
Sits leaning o'er a forest pool | I |
Watching the lilies opening cool | I |
And dragonflies at airy play | H |
While dim and near the quietness | B |
Rustles and stirs her leafy dress | B |
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IV | - |
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Far off a cowbell clangs awake | J |
The noon who slumbers in the brake | J |
And now a pewee plaintively | K |
Whistles the day to sleep again | L |
A rain crow croaks a rune for rain | M |
And from the ripest apple tree | K |
A great gold apple thuds where slow | N |
The red cock curves his neck to crow | N |
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V | K |
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Hens cluck their broods from place to place | B |
While clinking home with chain and trace | B |
The cart horse plods along the road | O |
Where afternoon sits with his dreams | B |
Hot fragrance of hay making streams | B |
Above him and a high heaped load | O |
Goes creaking by and with it sweet | E |
The aromatic soul of heat | E |
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VI | - |
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'Coo ee coo ee ' the evenfall | N |
Cries and the hills repeat the call | N |
'Coo ee coo ee ' and by the log | P |
Labor unharnesses his plow | N |
While to the barn comes cow on cow | N |
'Coo ee coo ee ' and with his dog | P |
Barefooted boyhood down the lane | M |
'Coo ees' the cattle home again | L |
Madison Julius Cawein
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