On An Apple-ripe September Morning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DBAB CBBB BEFG ABBB BHIJ BKLK BBMB| On an apple ripe September morning | A |
| Through the mist chill fields I went | B |
| With a pitch fork on my shoulder | C |
| Less for use than for devilment | B |
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| The threshing mill was set up I knew | D |
| In Cassidy's haggard last night | B |
| And we owed them a day at the threshing | A |
| Since last year O it was delight | B |
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| To be paying bills of laughter | C |
| And chaffy gossip in kind | B |
| With work thrown in to ballast | B |
| The fantasy soaring mind | B |
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| As I crossed the wooden bridge I wondered | B |
| As I looked into the drain | E |
| If ever a summer morning should find me | F |
| Shovelling up eels again | G |
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| And I thought of the wasps' nest in the bank | A |
| And how I got chased one day | B |
| Leaving the drag and the scraw knife behind | B |
| How I covered my face with hay | B |
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| The wet leaves of the cocksfoot | B |
| Polished my boots as I | H |
| Went round by the glistening bog holes | I |
| Lost in unthinking joy | J |
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| I'll be carrying bags to day I mused | B |
| The best job at the mill | K |
| With plenty of time to talk of our loves | L |
| As we wait for the bags to fill | K |
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| Maybe Mary might call round | B |
| And then I came to the haggard gate | B |
| And I knew as I entered that I had come | M |
| Through fields that were part of no earthly estate | B |
Patrick Kavanagh
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