Evening. By A Tailor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJ KLMEFFNOPHH MFQHHMIMHRHSFT HMUHFHHTHFMHHHPIDay hath put on his jacket and around | A |
His burning bosom buttoned it with stars | B |
Here will I lay me on the velvet grass | C |
That is like padding to earth s meagre ribs | D |
And hold communion with the things about me | E |
Ah me how lovely is the golden braid | F |
That binds the skirt of night s descending robe | G |
The thin leaves quivering on their silken threads | H |
Do make a music like to rustling satin | I |
As the light breezes smooth their downy nap | J |
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Ha what is this that rises to my touch | K |
So like a cushion Can it be a cabbage | L |
It is it is that deeply injured flower | M |
Which boys do flout us with but yet I love thee | E |
Thou giant rose wrapped in a green surtout | F |
Doubtless in Eden thou didst blush as bright | F |
As these thy puny brethren and thy breath | N |
Sweetened the fragrance of her spicy air | O |
But now thou seemest like a bankrupt beau | P |
Stripped of his gaudy hues and essences | H |
And growing portly in his sober garments | H |
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Is that a swan that rides upon the water | M |
Oh no it is that other gentle bird | F |
Which is the patron of our noble calling | Q |
I well remember in my early years | H |
When these young hands first closed upon a goose | H |
I have a scar upon my thimble finger | M |
Which chronicles the hour of young ambition | I |
My father was a tailor and his father | M |
And my sire s grandsire all of them were tailors | H |
They had an ancient goose it was an heirloom | R |
From some remoter tailor of our race | H |
It happened I did see it on a time | S |
When none was near and I did deal with it | F |
And it did burn me oh most fearfully | T |
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It is a joy to straighten out one s limbs | H |
And leap elastic from the level counter | M |
Leaving the petty grievances of earth | U |
The breaking thread the din of clashing shears | H |
And all the needles that do wound the spirit | F |
For such a pensive hour of soothing silence | H |
Kind Nature shuffling in her loose undress | H |
Lays bare her shady bosom I can feel | T |
With all around me I can hail the flowers | H |
That sprig earth s mantle and yon quiet bird | F |
That rides the stream is to me as a brother | M |
The vulgar know not all the hidden pockets | H |
Where Nature stows away her loveliness | H |
But this unnatural posture of the legs | H |
Cramps my extended calves and I must go | P |
Where I can coil them in their wonted fashion | I |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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