Vagrancy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFFA GGHI HIJJKKLL MNOOAA LLCIIC AAN PQQRRSTST UUVA ALL

When the slow year creeps hay ward and the skiesA
Are warming in the summer's mild surpriseA
And the still breeze disturbs each leafy frondB
Like hungry fishes dimpling in a pondB
It is a pleasant thing to dream at easeC
On sun warmed thyme not far from beechen treesC
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A robin flashing in a rowan treeD
A wanton robin spills his melodyD
As if he had such store of golden tonesE
That they were no more worth to him than stonesE
The sunny lizards dream upon the ledgesF
Linnets titter in and out the hedgesF
Or swoop among the freckled butterfliesA
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Down to a beechen hollow winds the trackG
And tunnels past my twilit bivouacG
Two spiring wisps of smoke go singly upH
And scarcely tremble in the leafy airI
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There are more shadows in this loamy cupH
Than God could count and oh but it is fairI
The kindly green and rounded trunks that meetJ
Under the soil with twinings of their feetJ
And in the sky with twinings of their armsK
The yellow stools the still ungathered charmsK
Of berry woodland herb and bryonyL
And mid wood's changeling child AnemoneL
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Quiet as a grave beneath a spireM
I lie and watch the pointed climbing fireN
I lie and watch the smoky weather cockO
That climbs too high and bends to the breeze's shockO
And breaks and dances off across the skiesA
Gay as a flurry of blue butterfliesA
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But presently the evening shadows inL
Heralded by the night jar's solitary dinL
And the quick bat's squeak among the treesC
Who sudden rises darting across the airI
To weave her filmy web in the Sun's bright hairI
That slowly sinks dejected on his kneesC
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Now is he vanished the bewildered skiesA
Flame out a desperate and last surmiseA
Then yield to Night their sudden conquerorN
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From pole to pole the shadow of the worldP
Creeps over heaven till itself is litQ
By the very many stars that wake in itQ
Sleep like a messenger of great importR
Lays quiet and compelling hands athwartR
The easy idlenesses of my mindS
There is a breeze above me and aroundT
There is a fire before me and behindS
But Sleep doth hold me and I hear no soundT
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In the far West the clouds are musteringU
Without hurry noise or blusteringU
And soon as Body's nightly SentinelV
Himself doth nod I open furtive eyesA
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With darkling hook the Farmer of the SkiesA
Goes reaping stars they flicker one by oneL
Nodding a little tumble and are goneL

Richard Arthur Warren Hughes



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