Making Cider Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBCDDC ECCE CFGFGCHH IJIJ KDDHHLMNMOOKNKPOP QRQQRHSQHSSHAHAI saw within the wheelwright s shed | A |
The big round cartwheels blue and red | A |
A plough with blunted share | B |
A blue tin jug a broken chair | B |
And paint in trial patchwork square | B |
Slapping up against the wall | C |
The lumber of the wheelwright s trade | D |
And tools on benches neatly laid | D |
The brace the adze the awl | C |
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And framed within the latticed panes | E |
Above the cluttered sill | C |
Saw rooks upon the stubble hill | C |
Seeking forgotten grains | E |
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And all the air was sweet and shrill | C |
With juice of apples heaped in skips | F |
Fermenting rotten soft and bruise | G |
And all the yard was strewn with pips | F |
Discarded pulp and wrung out ooze | G |
That ducks with rummaging flat bill | C |
Searched through beside the cider press | H |
To gobble in their greediness | H |
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The young men strained upon the crank | I |
To wring the last reluctant inch | J |
They laughed together fair and frank | I |
And threw their loins across the winch | J |
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A holiday from field and dung | K |
From plough and harrow scythe and spade | D |
To dabble in another trade | D |
The crush the pippins in the slats | H |
And see that in the little vats | H |
An extra pint was wring | L |
While round about the worthies stood | M |
Profuse in comment praise or blame | N |
Content the press should be of wood | M |
Advising rum decrying wheat | O |
And black strong sugar makes it sweet | O |
But still resolved with maundering tongue | K |
That cider could not be the same | N |
As once when they were young | K |
But still the young contemptuous men | P |
Laughed kindly at their old conceit | O |
And strained upon the crank again | P |
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Now barrels ranged in portly line | Q |
Mature through winter s sleep | R |
Aping the leisured sloths of wine | Q |
That dreams of Tiber or the Rhine | Q |
Mellowing slow and deep | R |
But keen and cold the northern nights | H |
Sharpen the quiet yard | S |
And sharp like no rich southern wine | Q |
The tang of cider bites | H |
For here the splintered stars and hard | S |
Hold England in a frosty guard | S |
Orion and Pleiades | H |
Above the wheelwright s shed | A |
And Sirius resting on the trees | H |
While all the village snores abed | A |
Victoria Sackville-west
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