The Beech-nut Gatherer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJKLK JBGBMNON PQDQRSPS QTGTUSVS GWXWDTGT YZA2ZA2TAT

All over the earth like a mantleA
Golden and green and greyB
Crimson and scarlet and yellowC
The Autumn foliage layB
The sun of the Indian SummerD
Laughed at the bare old treesE
As they shook their leafless branchesF
In the soft October breezeE
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Gorgeous was every hill sideG
And gorgeous every nookH
And the dry old log was gorgeousI
Spanning the little brookH
Its holiday robes the forestJ
Had suddenly cast to earthK
And as yet seemed scarce to miss themL
In its plenitude of mirthK
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I walked where the leaves the softestJ
The brightest and goldenest layB
And I thought of a forest hill sideG
And an Indian Summer dayB
Of an eager little child faceM
O'er the fallen leaves that bentN
As she gathered her cup of beech nutsO
With innocent contentN
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I thought of the small brown fingersP
Gleaning them one by oneQ
With the partridge drumming near herD
In the forest bare and dunQ
And the jet black squirrel winkingR
His saucy jealous eyeS
At those tiny pilfering fingersP
From his sly nook up on highS
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Ah barefooted little maidenQ
With thy bonnetless sun burnt browT
Thou glean'st no more on the hill sideG
Where art thou gleaning nowT
I knew by the lifted glancesU
Of thy dark imperious eyeS
That the tall trees bending o'er theeV
Would not shelter thee by and byS
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The cottage by the brooksideG
With its mossy roof is goneW
The cattle have left the uplandsX
The young lambs left the lawnW
Gone are thy blue eyed sisterD
And thy brother's laughing browT
And the beech nuts He ungatheredG
On the lonely hill side nowT
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What have the returning seasonsY
Brought to thy heart since thenZ
In thy long and weary wand'ringsA2
In the paths of busy menZ
Has the Angel of grief or of gladnessA2
Set his seal upon thy browT
Maiden joyous or tearfulA
Where art thou gleaning nowT

Pamela S. Vining, (j. C. Yule)



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