A Country Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBACDEFGFHAAIJAAAK LMMNNOPNPQPPRSANPTUN PPNPIVWXPYZN| A bird that I don't know | A |
| Hunched on his light pole like a scarecrow | A |
| Looks sideways out into the wheat | B |
| The wind waves under the waves of heat | B |
| The field is yellow as egg bread dough | A |
| Except where just as though they'd let | C |
| It live for looks a locust billows | D |
| In leaf green and shade violet | E |
| A standing mercy | F |
| The bird calls twice Red clay red clay | G |
| Or else he's saying Directly directly | F |
| If someone came by I could ask | H |
| Around here all of them must know | A |
| And why they live so and die so | A |
| Or why for once the lagging heron | I |
| Flaps from the little creek's parched cresses | J |
| Across the harsh grassed gullied meadow | A |
| To the black rowed evergreens below | A |
| They know and they don't know | A |
| To ask a man must be a stranger | K |
| And asking much more answering is dangerous | L |
| Asked about it who would not repent | M |
| Of all he ever did and never meant | M |
| And think a life and its distresses | N |
| Its random clutched for homefelt blisses | N |
| The circumstances of an accident | O |
| The farthest farmer in a field | P |
| A gaunt plant grown for seed by farmers | N |
| Has felt a longing lorn urbanity | P |
| Jailed in his breast and just as I | Q |
| Has grunted in his old perplexity | P |
| A standing plea | P |
| From the tar of the blazing square | R |
| The eyes shift in their taciturn | S |
| And unavowing unavailable sorrow | A |
| Yet the intonation of a name confesses | N |
| Some secrets that they never meant | P |
| To let out to a soul and what words would not dim | T |
| The bowed and weathered heads above the denim | U |
| Or the once too often washed wash dresses | N |
| They are subdued to their own element | P |
| One day | P |
| The red clay face | N |
| Is lowered to the naked clay | P |
| After some words the body is forsaken | I |
| The shadows lengthen and a dreaming hope | V |
| Breathes from the vague mound Life | W |
| From the grove under the spire | X |
| Stars shine and a wandering light | P |
| Is kindled for the mourner man | Y |
| The angel kneeling with the wreath | Z |
| Sees in the moonlight graves | N |
Randall Jarrell
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