The Locust Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCDD EFEFGGGHH IJIJGJGGG KLKLGKGGG| Thou pulse of hotness who with reedlike breast | A |
| Makest meridian music long and loud | B |
| Accentuating summer Dost thy best | A |
| To make the sunbeams fiercer and to crowd | B |
| With lonesomeness the long close afternoon | C |
| When Labor leans swart faced and beady browed | B |
| Upon his sultry scythe thou tangible tune | C |
| Of heat whose waves incessantly arise | D |
| Quivering and clear beneath the cloudless skies | D |
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| Thou singest and upon his haggard hills | E |
| Drouth yawns and rubs his heavy eyes and wakes | F |
| Brushes the hot hair from his face and fills | E |
| The land with death as sullenly he takes | F |
| Downward his dusty way 'Midst woods and fields | G |
| At every pool his burning thirst he slakes | G |
| No grove so deep no bank so high it shields | G |
| A spring from him no creek evades his eye | H |
| He needs but look and they are withered dry | H |
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| Thou singest and thy song is as a spell | I |
| Of somnolence to charm the land with sleep | J |
| A thorn of sound that pierces dale and dell | I |
| Diffusing slumber over vale and steep | J |
| Sleepy the forest nodding sleepy boughs | G |
| Sleepy the pastures with their sleepy sheep | J |
| Sleepy the creek where sleepily the cows | G |
| Stand knee deep and the very heaven seems | G |
| Sleepy and lost in undetermined dreams | G |
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| Art thou a rattle that Monotony | K |
| Summer's dull nurse old sister of slow Time | L |
| Shakes for Day's peevish pleasure who in glee | K |
| Takes its discordant music for sweet rhyme | L |
| Or oboe that the Summer Noontide plays | G |
| Sitting with Ripeness 'neath the orchard tree | K |
| Trying repeatedly the same shrill phrase | G |
| Until the musky peach with weariness | G |
| Drops and the hum of murmuring bees grows less | G |
Madison Julius Cawein
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