Robert Lee Frost

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The Gum-gatherer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDABADEFGHGHGIJJ KLJLMNNJOPPMQRSQRMS

There overtook me and drew me inA
To his down hill early morning strideB
And set me five miles on my roadC
Better than if he had had me rideB
A man with a swinging bag for'loadC
And half the bag wound round his handD
We talked like barking above the dinA
Of water we walked along besideB
And for my telling him where I'd beenA
And where I lived in mountain landD
To be coming home the way I wasE
He told me a little about himselfF
He came from higher up in the passG
Where the grist of the new beginning brooksH
Is blocks split off the mountain massG
And hop eless grist enough it looksH
Ever to grind to soil for grassG
The way it is will do for mossI
There he had built his stolen shackJ
It had to be a stolen shackJ
Because of the fears of fire and logsK
That trouble the sleep of lumber folkL
Visions of half the world burned blackJ
And the sun shrunken yellow in smokeL
We know who when they come to townM
Bring berries under the wagon seatN
Or a basket of eggs between their feetN
What this man brought in a cotton sackJ
Was gum the gum of the mountain spruceO
He showed me lumps of the scented stuffP
Like uncut jewels dull and roughP
It comes to market golden brownM
But turns to pink between the teethQ
I told him this is a pleasant lifeR
To set your breast to the bark of treesS
That all your days are dim beneathQ
And reaching up with a little knifeR
To loose the resin and take it downM
And bring it to market when you pleaseS

Robert Lee Frost



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