The Song Of The Cicadas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABBACBBCDEEEE AAABBAEBBE DEFEF| Yesterday there came to me | A |
| from a green and graceful tree | A |
| as I loitered listlessly | A |
| nothing doing nothing caring | B |
| light and warmth and fragrance sharing | B |
| with the butterfly and the bee | A |
| while the sapling tops a glisten | C |
| danced and trembled wild and willing | B |
| such a sudden sylvan shrilling | B |
| that I could not choose but listen | C |
| Green Cicadas Black Cicadas | D |
| happy in the gracious weather | E |
| Floury baker Double Drummer | E |
| all as one and all together | E |
| how they voiced the golden summer | E |
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| Stealing back there came to me | A |
| as I loitered listlessly | A |
| 'neath the green and graceful tree | A |
| nothing doing nothing caring | B |
| boyhood moments spent in sharing | B |
| with the butterfly and the bee | A |
| youth and freedom warmth and glamour | E |
| while Cicadas round me shrilling | B |
| set the sleepy noontide thrilling | B |
| with their keen insistent clamour | E |
| - | |
| Green Cicadas Black cicadas | D |
| happy in the gracious weather | E |
| Floury bakers double drummers | F |
| all as one and all together | E |
| how they voice the bygone summers | F |
Roderic Quinn
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