Midsummer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BBBBBBBB A CCDEEDFF A GGHIIHBB JJKLMKNN K BBOBBOEE NNPNNPML

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The mellow smell of hollyhocksB
And marigolds and pinks and phloxB
Blends with the homely garden scentsB
Of onions silvering into rodsB
Of peppers scarlet with their podsB
And rose of all the esculentsB
Of broad plebeian cabbagesB
Breathing content and corpulent easeB
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IIA
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The buzz of wasp and fly makes hotC
The spaces of the garden plotC
And from the orchard where the fruitD
Ripens and rounds or loosed with heatE
Rolls hornet clung before the feetE
One hears the veery's golden fluteD
That mixes with the sleepy humF
Of bees that drowsily go and comeF
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IIIA
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The podded musk of gourd and vineG
Embower a gate of roughest pineG
That leads into a wood where dayH
Sits leaning o'er a forest poolI
Watching the lilies opening coolI
And dragonflies at airy playH
While dim and near the quietnessB
Rustles and stirs her leafy dressB
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Far off a cowbell clangs awakeJ
The noon who slumbers in the brakeJ
And now a pewee plaintivelyK
Whistles the day to sleep againL
A rain crow croaks a rune for rainM
And from the ripest apple treeK
A great gold apple thuds where slowN
The red cock curves his neck to crowN
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VK
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Hens cluck their broods from place to placeB
While clinking home with chain and traceB
The cart horse plods along the roadO
Where afternoon sits with his dreamsB
Hot fragrance of hay making streamsB
Above him and a high heaped loadO
Goes creaking by and with it sweetE
The aromatic soul of heatE
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'Coo ee coo ee ' the evenfallN
Cries and the hills repeat the callN
'Coo ee coo ee ' and by the logP
Labor unharnesses his plowN
While to the barn comes cow on cowN
'Coo ee coo ee ' and with his dogP
Barefooted boyhood down the laneM
'Coo ees' the cattle home againL

Madison Julius Cawein



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