Evening. By A Tailor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJ KLMEFFNOPHH MFQHHMIMHRHSFT HMUHFHHTHFMHHHPI

Day hath put on his jacket and aroundA
His burning bosom buttoned it with starsB
Here will I lay me on the velvet grassC
That is like padding to earth s meagre ribsD
And hold communion with the things about meE
Ah me how lovely is the golden braidF
That binds the skirt of night s descending robeG
The thin leaves quivering on their silken threadsH
Do make a music like to rustling satinI
As the light breezes smooth their downy napJ
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Ha what is this that rises to my touchK
So like a cushion Can it be a cabbageL
It is it is that deeply injured flowerM
Which boys do flout us with but yet I love theeE
Thou giant rose wrapped in a green surtoutF
Doubtless in Eden thou didst blush as brightF
As these thy puny brethren and thy breathN
Sweetened the fragrance of her spicy airO
But now thou seemest like a bankrupt beauP
Stripped of his gaudy hues and essencesH
And growing portly in his sober garmentsH
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Is that a swan that rides upon the waterM
Oh no it is that other gentle birdF
Which is the patron of our noble callingQ
I well remember in my early yearsH
When these young hands first closed upon a gooseH
I have a scar upon my thimble fingerM
Which chronicles the hour of young ambitionI
My father was a tailor and his fatherM
And my sire s grandsire all of them were tailorsH
They had an ancient goose it was an heirloomR
From some remoter tailor of our raceH
It happened I did see it on a timeS
When none was near and I did deal with itF
And it did burn me oh most fearfullyT
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It is a joy to straighten out one s limbsH
And leap elastic from the level counterM
Leaving the petty grievances of earthU
The breaking thread the din of clashing shearsH
And all the needles that do wound the spiritF
For such a pensive hour of soothing silenceH
Kind Nature shuffling in her loose undressH
Lays bare her shady bosom I can feelT
With all around me I can hail the flowersH
That sprig earth s mantle and yon quiet birdF
That rides the stream is to me as a brotherM
The vulgar know not all the hidden pocketsH
Where Nature stows away her lovelinessH
But this unnatural posture of the legsH
Cramps my extended calves and I must goP
Where I can coil them in their wonted fashionI

Oliver Wendell Holmes



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