Midsummer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBBBBBB A CCDEEDFF A GGHIIHBB JJKLMKNN K BBOBBOEE NNPNNPML| I | 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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