Making Cider Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBCDDC ECCE CFGFGCHH IJIJ KDDHHLMNMOOKNKPOP QRQQRHSQHSSHAHA| I 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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