Making Cider Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBBCDDC ECCE CFGFGCHH IJIJ KDDHHLMNMOOKNKPOP QRQQRHSQHSSHAHA

I saw within the wheelwright s shedA
The big round cartwheels blue and redA
A plough with blunted shareB
A blue tin jug a broken chairB
And paint in trial patchwork squareB
Slapping up against the wallC
The lumber of the wheelwright s tradeD
And tools on benches neatly laidD
The brace the adze the awlC
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And framed within the latticed panesE
Above the cluttered sillC
Saw rooks upon the stubble hillC
Seeking forgotten grainsE
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And all the air was sweet and shrillC
With juice of apples heaped in skipsF
Fermenting rotten soft and bruiseG
And all the yard was strewn with pipsF
Discarded pulp and wrung out oozeG
That ducks with rummaging flat billC
Searched through beside the cider pressH
To gobble in their greedinessH
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The young men strained upon the crankI
To wring the last reluctant inchJ
They laughed together fair and frankI
And threw their loins across the winchJ
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A holiday from field and dungK
From plough and harrow scythe and spadeD
To dabble in another tradeD
The crush the pippins in the slatsH
And see that in the little vatsH
An extra pint was wringL
While round about the worthies stoodM
Profuse in comment praise or blameN
Content the press should be of woodM
Advising rum decrying wheatO
And black strong sugar makes it sweetO
But still resolved with maundering tongueK
That cider could not be the sameN
As once when they were youngK
But still the young contemptuous menP
Laughed kindly at their old conceitO
And strained upon the crank againP
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Now barrels ranged in portly lineQ
Mature through winter s sleepR
Aping the leisured sloths of wineQ
That dreams of Tiber or the RhineQ
Mellowing slow and deepR
But keen and cold the northern nightsH
Sharpen the quiet yardS
And sharp like no rich southern wineQ
The tang of cider bitesH
For here the splintered stars and hardS
Hold England in a frosty guardS
Orion and PleiadesH
Above the wheelwright s shedA
And Sirius resting on the treesH
While all the village snores abedA

Victoria Sackville-west



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