Pan In Vermont Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBAA CCAA DDEE AAFF AAGG HHII JJKK| About the th of this month you may expectour Mr with the usual Spring Seed etc Catalogues Florist s Announcement | A |
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| It s forty in the shade to day the spouting eaves declare | B |
| The boulders nose above the drift the southern slopes are bare | B |
| Hub deep in slush Apollo s car swings north along the Zod | A |
| iac Good luck the Spring is back and Pan is on the road | A |
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| His house is Gee Tellus Sons so goes his jest with men | C |
| He sold us Zeus knows what last year he ll take us in again | C |
| Disguised behind the livery team fur coated rubber shod | A |
| Yet Apis from the bull pen lows he knows his brother God | A |
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| Now down the lines of tasseled pines the yearning whispers wake | D |
| Pithys of old thy love behold Come in for Hermes s sake | D |
| How long since that so Boston boot with reeling Maenads ran | E |
| Numen adest Let be the rest Pipe and we pay O Pan | E |
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| What though his phlox and hollyhocks ere half a month demised | A |
| What though his ampelopsis clambered not as advertised | A |
| Though every seed was guaranteed and every standard true | F |
| Forget forgive they did not live Believe and buy anew | F |
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| Now o er a careless knee he flings the painted page abroad | A |
| Such bloom hath never eye beheld this side of Eden Sword | A |
| Such fruit Pomona marks her own yea Liber oversees | G |
| That we may reach one dollar each the Lost Hesperides | G |
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| Serene assenting unabashed he writes our orders down | H |
| Blue Asphodel on all our paths a few true bays for crown | H |
| Uncankered bud immoral flower and leaves that never fall | I |
| Apples of Gold of Youth of Health and thank you Pan that s all | I |
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| He s off along the drifted pent to catch the Windsor train | J |
| And swindle every citizen from Keene to Lake Champlain | J |
| But where his goat s hoof cut the crust beloved look below | K |
| He s left us I ll forgive him all the may flower neath her snow | K |
Rudyard Kipling
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