The Beech-nut Gatherer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJKLK JBGBMNON PQDQRSPS QTGTUSVS GWXWDTGT YZA2ZA2TATAll over the earth like a mantle | A |
Golden and green and grey | B |
Crimson and scarlet and yellow | C |
The Autumn foliage lay | B |
The sun of the Indian Summer | D |
Laughed at the bare old trees | E |
As they shook their leafless branches | F |
In the soft October breeze | E |
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Gorgeous was every hill side | G |
And gorgeous every nook | H |
And the dry old log was gorgeous | I |
Spanning the little brook | H |
Its holiday robes the forest | J |
Had suddenly cast to earth | K |
And as yet seemed scarce to miss them | L |
In its plenitude of mirth | K |
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I walked where the leaves the softest | J |
The brightest and goldenest lay | B |
And I thought of a forest hill side | G |
And an Indian Summer day | B |
Of an eager little child face | M |
O'er the fallen leaves that bent | N |
As she gathered her cup of beech nuts | O |
With innocent content | N |
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I thought of the small brown fingers | P |
Gleaning them one by one | Q |
With the partridge drumming near her | D |
In the forest bare and dun | Q |
And the jet black squirrel winking | R |
His saucy jealous eye | S |
At those tiny pilfering fingers | P |
From his sly nook up on high | S |
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Ah barefooted little maiden | Q |
With thy bonnetless sun burnt brow | T |
Thou glean'st no more on the hill side | G |
Where art thou gleaning now | T |
I knew by the lifted glances | U |
Of thy dark imperious eye | S |
That the tall trees bending o'er thee | V |
Would not shelter thee by and by | S |
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The cottage by the brookside | G |
With its mossy roof is gone | W |
The cattle have left the uplands | X |
The young lambs left the lawn | W |
Gone are thy blue eyed sister | D |
And thy brother's laughing brow | T |
And the beech nuts He ungathered | G |
On the lonely hill side now | T |
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What have the returning seasons | Y |
Brought to thy heart since then | Z |
In thy long and weary wand'rings | A2 |
In the paths of busy men | Z |
Has the Angel of grief or of gladness | A2 |
Set his seal upon thy brow | T |
Maiden joyous or tearful | A |
Where art thou gleaning now | T |
Pamela S. Vining, (j. C. Yule)
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