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 skies | A |
| Are warming in the summer's mild surprise | A |
| And the still breeze disturbs each leafy frond | B |
| Like hungry fishes dimpling in a pond | B |
| It is a pleasant thing to dream at ease | C |
| On sun warmed thyme not far from beechen trees | C |
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| A robin flashing in a rowan tree | D |
| A wanton robin spills his melody | D |
| As if he had such store of golden tones | E |
| That they were no more worth to him than stones | E |
| The sunny lizards dream upon the ledges | F |
| Linnets titter in and out the hedges | F |
| Or swoop among the freckled butterflies | A |
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| Down to a beechen hollow winds the track | G |
| And tunnels past my twilit bivouac | G |
| Two spiring wisps of smoke go singly up | H |
| And scarcely tremble in the leafy air | I |
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| There are more shadows in this loamy cup | H |
| Than God could count and oh but it is fair | I |
| The kindly green and rounded trunks that meet | J |
| Under the soil with twinings of their feet | J |
| And in the sky with twinings of their arms | K |
| The yellow stools the still ungathered charms | K |
| Of berry woodland herb and bryony | L |
| And mid wood's changeling child Anemone | L |
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| Quiet as a grave beneath a spire | M |
| I lie and watch the pointed climbing fire | N |
| I lie and watch the smoky weather cock | O |
| That climbs too high and bends to the breeze's shock | O |
| And breaks and dances off across the skies | A |
| Gay as a flurry of blue butterflies | A |
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| But presently the evening shadows in | L |
| Heralded by the night jar's solitary din | L |
| And the quick bat's squeak among the trees | C |
| Who sudden rises darting across the air | I |
| To weave her filmy web in the Sun's bright hair | I |
| That slowly sinks dejected on his knees | C |
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| Now is he vanished the bewildered skies | A |
| Flame out a desperate and last surmise | A |
| Then yield to Night their sudden conqueror | N |
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| From pole to pole the shadow of the world | P |
| Creeps over heaven till itself is lit | Q |
| By the very many stars that wake in it | Q |
| Sleep like a messenger of great import | R |
| Lays quiet and compelling hands athwart | R |
| The easy idlenesses of my mind | S |
| There is a breeze above me and around | T |
| There is a fire before me and behind | S |
| But Sleep doth hold me and I hear no sound | T |
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| In the far West the clouds are mustering | U |
| Without hurry noise or blustering | U |
| And soon as Body's nightly Sentinel | V |
| Himself doth nod I open furtive eyes | A |
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| With darkling hook the Farmer of the Skies | A |
| Goes reaping stars they flicker one by one | L |
| Nodding a little tumble and are gone | L |
Richard Arthur Warren Hughes
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