A Hillside Thaw Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCBCDEEDDFCFC GHIHGJIKJLKMFLFMM| To think to know the country and now know | A |
| The hillside on the day the sun lets go | A |
| Ten million silver lizards out of snow | A |
| As often as I've seen it done before | B |
| I can't pretend to tell the way it's done | C |
| It looks as if some magic of the sun | C |
| Lifted the rug that bred them on the floor | B |
| And the light breaking on them made them run | C |
| But if I though to stop the wet stampede | D |
| And caught one silver lizard by the tail | E |
| And put my foot on one without avail | E |
| And threw myself wet elbowed and wet kneed | D |
| In front of twenty others' wriggling speed | D |
| In the confusion of them all aglitter | F |
| And birds that joined in the excited fun | C |
| By doubling and redoubling song and twitter | F |
| I have no doubt I'd end by holding none | C |
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| It takes the moon for this The sun's a wizard | G |
| By all I tell but so's the moon a witch | H |
| From the high west she makes a gentle cast | I |
| And suddenly without a jerk or twitch | H |
| She has her speel on every single lizard | G |
| I fancied when I looked at six o'clock | J |
| The swarm still ran and scuttled just as fast | I |
| The moon was waiting for her chill effect | K |
| I looked at nine the swarm was turned to rock | J |
| In every lifelike posture of the swarm | L |
| Transfixed on mountain slopes almost erect | K |
| Across each other and side by side they lay | M |
| The spell that so could hold them as they were | F |
| Was wrought through trees without a breath of storm | L |
| To make a leaf if there had been one stir | F |
| One lizard at the end of every ray | M |
| The thought of my attempting such a stray | M |
Robert Lee Frost
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