Blueberries Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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You ought to have seen what I saw on my wayA
To the village through Mortenson's pasture to dayA
Blueberries as big as the end of your thumbB
Real sky blue and heavy and ready to drumB
In the cavernous pail of the first one to comeB
And all ripe together not some of them greenC
And some of them ripe You ought to have seenC
I don't know what part of the pasture you meanC
You know where they cut off the woods let me seeD
It was two years ago or no can it beD
No longer than that and the following fallE
The fire ran and burned it all up but the wallE
Why there hasn't been time for the bushes to growF
That's always the way with the blueberries thoughF
There may not have been the ghost of a signG
Of them anywhere under the shade of the pineG
But get the pine out of the way you may burnH
The pasture all over until not a fernH
Or grass blade is left not to mention a stickI
And presto they're up all around you as thickI
And hard to explain as a conjuror's trickI
It must be on charcoal they fatten their fruitJ
I taste in them sometimes the flavour of sootK
And after all really they're ebony skinnedL
The blue's but a mist from the breath of the windM
A tarnish that goes at a touch of the handN
And less than the tan with which pickers are tannedN
Does Mortenson know what he has do you thinkO
He may and not care and so leave the chewinkO
To gather them for him you know what he isP
He won't make the fact that they're rightfully hisP
An excuse for keeping us other folk outQ
I wonder you didn't see Loren aboutQ
The best of it was that I did Do you knowF
I was just getting through what the field had to showF
And over the wall and into the roadR
When who should come by with a democrat loadR
Of all the young chattering Lorens aliveS
But Loren the fatherly out for a driveS
He saw you then What did he do Did he frownT
He just kept nodding his head up and downT
You know how politely he always goes byU
But he thought a big thought I could tell by his eyeU
Which being expressed might be this in effectV
'I have left those there berries I shrewdly suspectV
To ripen too long I am greatly to blame 'W
He's a thriftier person than some I could nameX
He seems to be thrifty and hasn't he needY
With the mouths of all those young Lorens to feedY
He has brought them all up on wild berries they sayA
Like birds They store a great many awayA
They eat them the year round and those they don't eatZ
They sell in the store and buy shoes for their feetZ
Who cares what they say It's a nice way to liveS
Just taking what Nature is willing to giveA2
Not forcing her hand with harrow and plowB2
I wish you had seen his perpetual bowB2
And the air of the youngsters Not one of them turnedC2
And they looked so solemn absurdly concernedC2
I wish I knew half what the flock of them knowF
Of where all the berries and other things growF
Cranberries in bogs and raspberries on topD2
Of the boulder strewn mountain and when they will cropD2
I met them one day and each had a flowerE2
Stuck into his berries as fresh as a showerE2
Some strange kind they told me it hadn't a nameX
I've told you how once not long after we cameX
I almost provoked poor Loren to mirthF2
By going to him of all people on earthF2
To ask if he knew any fruit to be hadG2
For the picking The rascal he said he'd be gladG2
To tell if he knew But the year had been badG2
There had been some berries but those were all goneH2
He didn't say where they had been He went onI2
'I'm sure I'm sure' as polite as could beD
He spoke to his wife in the door 'Let me seeD
Mame we don't know any good berrying place 'W
It was all he could do to keep a straight faceJ2
If he thinks all the fruit that grows wild is for himK2
He'll find he's mistaken See here for a whimK2
We'll pick in the Mortensons' pasture this yearL2
We'll go in the morning that is if it's clearL2
And the sun shines out warm the vines must be wetM2
It's so long since I picked I almost forgetM2
How we used to pick berries we took one look roundN2
Then sank out of sight like trolls undergroundN2
And saw nothing more of each other or heardO2
Unless when you said I was keeping a birdO2
Away from its nest and I said it was youP2
'Well one of us is ' For complaining it flewP2
Around and around us And then for a whileQ2
We picked till I feared you had wandered a mileQ2
And I thought I had lost you I lifted a shoutQ
Too loud for the distance you were it turned outQ
For when you made answer your voice was as lowF
As talking you stood up beside me you knowF
We sha'n't have the place to ourselves to enjoyR2
Not likely when all the young Lorens deployR2
They'll be there to morrow or even to nightS2
They won't be too friendly they may be politeS2
To people they look on as having no rightS2
To pick where they're picking But we won't complainT2
You ought to have seen how it looked in the rainT2
The fruit mixed with water in layers of leavesU2
Like two kinds of jewels a vision for thievesU2

Robert Lee Frost



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