What You Will Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBCBBCB A BBBCBBCB A BBBCBBCB| I | A |
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| When the season was dry and the sun was hot | B |
| And the hornet sucked gaunt on the apricot | B |
| And the ripe peach dropped to its seed a rot | B |
| With a lean red wasp that stung and clung | C |
| When the hollyhocks ranked in the garden plot | B |
| More seed pods had than blossoms I wot | B |
| A weariness weighed on the tongue | C |
| That the drought of the season begot | B |
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| II | A |
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| When the black grape bulged with the juice that burst | B |
| Through its thick blue skin that was cracked with thirst | B |
| And the round gold pippins the summer had nursed | B |
| In the yellowing leaves o' the orchards hung | C |
| When the reapers their lips with whistling pursed | B |
| To their sun tanned brows in the corn were immersed | B |
| A lightness came over the tongue | C |
| And one sung as much as one durst | B |
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| III | A |
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| When the skies of December gray dripped and dripped | B |
| And icicles eaves of the big barn tipped | B |
| And loud hens flew over the snow or slipped | B |
| And the north wind hooted and bit and stung | C |
| And the ears of the milkmaid Miriam nipped | B |
| And the chappy cheeks of the farm boy whipped | B |
| A goddess unloosened the tongue | C |
| And one's mouth with wild honey was lipped | B |
Madison Julius Cawein
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