The Grasshopper I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADEDEFF GHHHHIHIHH JJJJKLKLMM| What joy you take in making hotness hotter | A |
| In emphasising dulness with your buzz | B |
| Making monotony more monotonous | C |
| When Summer comes and drouth hath dried the water | A |
| In all the creeks we hear your ragged rasp | D |
| Filling the stillness Or as urchins beat | E |
| A stagnant pond whereon the bubbles gasp | D |
| Your switch like music whips the midday heat | E |
| O bur of sound caught in the Summer's hair | F |
| We hear you everywhere | F |
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| We hear you in the vines and berry brambles | G |
| Along the unkempt lanes among the weeds | H |
| Amid the shadeless meadows gray with seeds | H |
| And by the wood 'round which the rail fence rambles | H |
| Sawing the sunlight with your sultry saw | H |
| Or like to tomboy truants at their play | I |
| With noisy mirth among the barn's deep straw | H |
| You sing away the careless summer day | I |
| O brier like voice that clings in idleness | H |
| To Summer's drowsy dress | H |
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| You tramp of insects vagrant and unheeding | J |
| Improvident who of the summer make | J |
| One long green mealtime and for winter take | J |
| No care aye singing or just merely feeding | J |
| Happy go lucky vagabond 'though frost | K |
| Shall pierce ere long your green coat or your brown | L |
| And pinch your body let no song be lost | K |
| But as you lived into your grave go down | L |
| Like some small poet with his little rhyme | M |
| Forgotten of all time | M |
Madison Julius Cawein
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