The Cricket I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CCCCDE F GHGH IIHIDD F ICIC JJKJDD L CMCN OOMODD| First of the insect choir in the spring | A |
| We hear his faint voice fluttering in the grass | B |
| Beneath some blossom's rosy covering | A |
| Or frond of fern upon a wildwood pass | B |
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| When in the marsh in clamorous orchestras | C |
| The shrill hylodes pipe when in the haw's | C |
| Bee swarming blooms or tasseling sassafras | C |
| Sweet threads of silvery song the sparrow draws | C |
| Bow like athwart the vibrant atmosphere | D |
| Like some dim dream low breathed in slumber's ear | E |
| We hear his 'Cheer cheer cheer ' | - |
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| II | F |
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| All summer through the mellowing meadows thrill | G |
| To his blithe music Be it day or night | H |
| Close gossip of the grass on field and hill | G |
| He serenades the silence with delight | H |
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| Silence that hears the melon slowly split | I |
| With ripeness and the plump peach hornet bit | I |
| Loosen and fall and everywhere the white | H |
| Warm silk like stir of leafy lights that flit | I |
| As breezes blow above which loudly clear | D |
| Like joy who sings of life and has no fear | D |
| We hear his 'Cheer cheer cheer ' | - |
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| III | F |
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| Then in the autumn by the waterside | I |
| Leaf huddled or along the weed grown walks | C |
| He dirges low the flowers that have died | I |
| Or with their ghosts holds solitary talks | C |
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| Lover of warmth all day above the click | J |
| And crunching of the sorghum press through thick | J |
| Sweet steam of juice all night when white as chalk | K |
| The hunter's moon hangs o'er the rustling rick | J |
| Within the barn 'mid munching cow and steer | D |
| Soft as a memory the heart holds dear | D |
| We hear his 'Cheer cheer cheer ' | - |
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| IV | L |
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| Kinsman and cousin of the Fa ry Race | C |
| All winter long he sets his sober mirth | M |
| That brings good luck to many a fire place | C |
| To folk lore song and story of the hearth | N |
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| Between the back log's bluster and the slim | O |
| High twittering of the kettle sounds that hymn | O |
| Home comforts when outside the starless Earth | M |
| Is icicled in every laden limb | O |
| Defying frost and all the sad and sear | D |
| Like love that dies not and is always near | D |
| We hear his 'Cheer cheer cheer ' | - |
Madison Julius Cawein
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