Blueberries Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBCCCDDEEFFGGHHII IJKLMNNOOPPQQFFRRSST TUUVVWXYYAAZZSA2B2B2 C2C2FFD2D2E2E2XXF2F2 G2G2G2H2I2DDWJ2K2K2L 2L2M2M2N2N2O2O2P2P2Q 2Q2QQFFR2R2S2S2S2T2T 2U2U2You ought to have seen what I saw on my way | A |
To the village through Mortenson's pasture to day | A |
Blueberries as big as the end of your thumb | B |
Real sky blue and heavy and ready to drum | B |
In the cavernous pail of the first one to come | B |
And all ripe together not some of them green | C |
And some of them ripe You ought to have seen | C |
I don't know what part of the pasture you mean | C |
You know where they cut off the woods let me see | D |
It was two years ago or no can it be | D |
No longer than that and the following fall | E |
The fire ran and burned it all up but the wall | E |
Why there hasn't been time for the bushes to grow | F |
That's always the way with the blueberries though | F |
There may not have been the ghost of a sign | G |
Of them anywhere under the shade of the pine | G |
But get the pine out of the way you may burn | H |
The pasture all over until not a fern | H |
Or grass blade is left not to mention a stick | I |
And presto they're up all around you as thick | I |
And hard to explain as a conjuror's trick | I |
It must be on charcoal they fatten their fruit | J |
I taste in them sometimes the flavour of soot | K |
And after all really they're ebony skinned | L |
The blue's but a mist from the breath of the wind | M |
A tarnish that goes at a touch of the hand | N |
And less than the tan with which pickers are tanned | N |
Does Mortenson know what he has do you think | O |
He may and not care and so leave the chewink | O |
To gather them for him you know what he is | P |
He won't make the fact that they're rightfully his | P |
An excuse for keeping us other folk out | Q |
I wonder you didn't see Loren about | Q |
The best of it was that I did Do you know | F |
I was just getting through what the field had to show | F |
And over the wall and into the road | R |
When who should come by with a democrat load | R |
Of all the young chattering Lorens alive | S |
But Loren the fatherly out for a drive | S |
He saw you then What did he do Did he frown | T |
He just kept nodding his head up and down | T |
You know how politely he always goes by | U |
But he thought a big thought I could tell by his eye | U |
Which being expressed might be this in effect | V |
'I have left those there berries I shrewdly suspect | V |
To ripen too long I am greatly to blame ' | W |
He's a thriftier person than some I could name | X |
He seems to be thrifty and hasn't he need | Y |
With the mouths of all those young Lorens to feed | Y |
He has brought them all up on wild berries they say | A |
Like birds They store a great many away | A |
They eat them the year round and those they don't eat | Z |
They sell in the store and buy shoes for their feet | Z |
Who cares what they say It's a nice way to live | S |
Just taking what Nature is willing to give | A2 |
Not forcing her hand with harrow and plow | B2 |
I wish you had seen his perpetual bow | B2 |
And the air of the youngsters Not one of them turned | C2 |
And they looked so solemn absurdly concerned | C2 |
I wish I knew half what the flock of them know | F |
Of where all the berries and other things grow | F |
Cranberries in bogs and raspberries on top | D2 |
Of the boulder strewn mountain and when they will crop | D2 |
I met them one day and each had a flower | E2 |
Stuck into his berries as fresh as a shower | E2 |
Some strange kind they told me it hadn't a name | X |
I've told you how once not long after we came | X |
I almost provoked poor Loren to mirth | F2 |
By going to him of all people on earth | F2 |
To ask if he knew any fruit to be had | G2 |
For the picking The rascal he said he'd be glad | G2 |
To tell if he knew But the year had been bad | G2 |
There had been some berries but those were all gone | H2 |
He didn't say where they had been He went on | I2 |
'I'm sure I'm sure' as polite as could be | D |
He spoke to his wife in the door 'Let me see | D |
Mame we don't know any good berrying place ' | W |
It was all he could do to keep a straight face | J2 |
If he thinks all the fruit that grows wild is for him | K2 |
He'll find he's mistaken See here for a whim | K2 |
We'll pick in the Mortensons' pasture this year | L2 |
We'll go in the morning that is if it's clear | L2 |
And the sun shines out warm the vines must be wet | M2 |
It's so long since I picked I almost forget | M2 |
How we used to pick berries we took one look round | N2 |
Then sank out of sight like trolls underground | N2 |
And saw nothing more of each other or heard | O2 |
Unless when you said I was keeping a bird | O2 |
Away from its nest and I said it was you | P2 |
'Well one of us is ' For complaining it flew | P2 |
Around and around us And then for a while | Q2 |
We picked till I feared you had wandered a mile | Q2 |
And I thought I had lost you I lifted a shout | Q |
Too loud for the distance you were it turned out | Q |
For when you made answer your voice was as low | F |
As talking you stood up beside me you know | F |
We sha'n't have the place to ourselves to enjoy | R2 |
Not likely when all the young Lorens deploy | R2 |
They'll be there to morrow or even to night | S2 |
They won't be too friendly they may be polite | S2 |
To people they look on as having no right | S2 |
To pick where they're picking But we won't complain | T2 |
You ought to have seen how it looked in the rain | T2 |
The fruit mixed with water in layers of leaves | U2 |
Like two kinds of jewels a vision for thieves | U2 |
Robert Lee Frost
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