A Drowsy Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBA DEFFGD HIFFIH FJKKJF FALLAF| The air is dark the sky is gray | A |
| The misty shadows come and go | B |
| And here within my dusky room | C |
| Each chair looks ghostly in the gloom | C |
| Outside the rain falls cold and slow | B |
| Half stinging drops half blinding spray | A |
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| Each slightest sound is magnified | D |
| For drowsy quiet holds her reign | E |
| The burnt stick in the fireplace breaks | F |
| The nodding cat with start awakes | F |
| And then to sleep drops off again | G |
| Unheeding Towser at her side | D |
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| I look far out across the lawn | H |
| Where huddled stand the silly sheep | I |
| My work lies idle at my hands | F |
| My thoughts fly out like scattered strands | F |
| Of thread and on the verge of sleep | I |
| Still half awake I dream and yawn | H |
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| What spirits rise before my eyes | F |
| How various of kind and form | J |
| Sweet memories of days long past | K |
| The dreams of youth that could not last | K |
| Each smiling calm each raging storm | J |
| That swept across my early skies | F |
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| Half seen the bare gaunt fingered boughs | F |
| Before my window sweep and sway | A |
| And chafe in tortures of unrest | L |
| My chin sinks down upon my breast | L |
| I cannot work on such a day | A |
| But only sit and dream and drowse | F |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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