Rainless Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DCDC EFEF GHGH FCFC FIFI| The locust builds its are of sound | A |
| And tops it with a spire | B |
| The roadside leaves pant to the ground | A |
| With dust from hoof and tire | C |
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| The insects day and night make din | D |
| And with the heat grow shriller | C |
| And everywhere great spiders spin | D |
| And crawls the caterpillar | C |
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| The wells are dry the creeks are pools | E |
| Weeds cram their beds with bristles | F |
| And when a wind breathes naught it cools | E |
| The air grows white with thistles | F |
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| For months the drouth has burned and baked | G |
| The wood and field and garden | H |
| The flower plots are dead and raked | G |
| Or mown the meadows harden | H |
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| The Summer sunk in godlessness | F |
| From quarter unto quarter | C |
| Now drags now lifts a dusty dress | F |
| That shows a sloven garter | C |
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| The child of Spring it now appears | F |
| Has turned a drab a harlot | I |
| Death's doxy Death's who near her leers | F |
| In rags of gold and scarlet | I |
Madison Julius Cawein
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