An Afternoon In July Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIKLAMA BNBOGPGQ GRGRLELE| How hushed and still are earth and air | A |
| How languid neath the sun s fierce ray | B |
| Drooping and faint the flowrets fair | A |
| On this hot sultry summer day | B |
| Vainly I watch the streamlet blue | C |
| That near my cottage home doth pass | D |
| No ripple stirs its azure hue | C |
| Still waveless as a sheet of glass | D |
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| And if I woo from yonder trees | E |
| A breath of coolness for my brow | F |
| They ve none to give not e en a breeze | E |
| Rustles amid their foliage now | F |
| Yes hush there stirred a leaf but no | G |
| Tis only some poor panting bird | H |
| With silenced note head drooping low | G |
| That mid the shady green boughs stirred | H |
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| Oh dear how sultry vain to seek | I |
| To while the time with pleasant book | J |
| Soon drowsy head and crimsoned cheek | I |
| Oblivious o er its pages droop | K |
| And motion is beyond my power | L |
| While breathing this hot scorching air | A |
| It wearies me to raise the flowers | M |
| That lie so close beside my chair | A |
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| See stealing wearied from their play | B |
| The flushed and languid children come | N |
| Saying that on so hot a day | B |
| They d much prefer to stay at home | O |
| Themselves upon the ground they throw | G |
| Cheeks pillowed on each rounded arm | P |
| And fall asleep soon murmuring low | G |
| And wondering why it is so warm | Q |
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| If yonder patient sheep and kine | G |
| Close shrinking from the sun s hot flame | R |
| Had man s gift power of speech divine | G |
| They surely would repeat the same | R |
| Each blade of grass each fainting flower | L |
| Would whisper to the shrubs and trees | E |
| How much they longed for evening s hour | L |
| With cooling breath and grateful breeze | E |
Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
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