Water Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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From Farmer Harrington's CalendarA
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APRILB
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RAIN rain rain for three good solid fluid weeksC
Till the air swims and all creation leaksC
And street cars furnish still less room to spareD
And hackmen several times have earned their fareD
The omnibuses lumber through the dinE
And carry clay outside as well as inE
The elevated trains with jerky careD
Haul half way comfort through the dripping airD
The gutters gallop past the liquid sceneF
As brisk as meadow brooks though not so cleanF
What trees the city keeps for comfort's sakeG
Are shedding tears as if their hearts would breakG
And water tries to get by storming steadyH
That fourth of all the world it hasn't alreadyH
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And men are not so sweet as men could wishI
In air that wouldn't offend a moderate fishI
Few places can be found outside or inE
Where this dark featured weather has not beenE
For man has always striven and in vainJ
To roof his disposition from the rainJ
I've strolled about this morning several milesK
'Mongst men who get their living by their smilesK
I've set my old umbrella up to dripL
In places where I claimed relationshipL
Or rather where my heart did and that's moreM
Than blood connection is sixteen times o'erA
I've journeyed up and down through half BroadwayN
And did not see a first class smile to dayN
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And so in spite of all that I can doO
These gold bowed spectacles are growing blueO
And my old heart must bear along the roadP
A fanciful but rather heavy loadP
A painful pressure from a hand unseenF
Most any one knows nearly what I meanF
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I think I'll powder up this dark skinned dayN
By going to night to hear the actors playN
They'll make me laugh and tone me up a bitQ
And get me out of this unnatural fitQ
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o'clock P MR
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Got back alive and that's worth thinking onS
From where there's been such lots of killing doneT
Mercy it was a somewhat skittish sightU
So many people butchered in one nightU
'Twas just a lot of people playing crimeV
A sort of murder picnic all the timeV
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We found the theatre with handbills spreadW
Near where the notice in the paper saidW
The weather had slacked up an hour or soX
And Wife thought she would condescend to goX
And after stumbling over several chapsY
Who thought they'd met us somewhere else perhapsY
And cheerfully addressed us o'er and o'erA
As if they'd known us several years or moreM
Persisting in affording us a chanceZ
To buy our tickets at a slight advanceZ
The theatres employ these men I've heardA2
To greet their patrons with a friendly wordA2
And light their way in with kind word and smileB2
And make a dollar out of them meanwhileB2
We brushed past these remarkable dead beatsC2
Some tickets bought and scrambled to our seatsC2
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After a piece of music by the bandD2
The curtain rose before a castle grandD2
And soldiers talking with a half scared mienF
About a spook that one of them had seenF
When lo this ghost appears plump to their viewO
And will not talk although they beg him toO
I whispered to my wife that I'd a freakE2
That a newspaper man could make him speakE2
But suddenly my comments had to ceaseF2
For Wife encouraged me to hold my peaceF2
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When lo this ghost who thus far might have comeG2
Out of a sky asylum for the dumbG2
Speaks with a queer but rather human soundH2
When once his son the Prince gets on the groundH2
And taking him aside ten feet almostI2
Tells the poor boy that he's his father's ghostI2
Whose own false brother softly to him creptJ2
And poured him full of poison while he sleptJ2
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Then the young man got mad though to my mindK2
'Twas lunacy of quite a knowing kindK2
And went to work with an apparent viewO
Of killing off 'most every one he knewO
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I haven't the time his actions all to stateL2
I'll only say he managed it first rateL2
And some way killed all relatives he sawM2
From uncle to prospective father in lawM2
And when he got through those he hadn't snuffed outN2
Were hardly worth while bothering aboutN2
I mustn't forget to say that this poor elfO2
Became at last a good square corpse himselfO2
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I looked around and the whole building throughO
Women were shedding tears as if 'twas trueO
And Wife was 'most too much concerned to speakE2
And even my old eyes had sprung a leakE2
'Twas a moist time and I remarked 'Tis plainJ
We've come out of the rain into the rainJ
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I got so full of funeral sitting thereD
Then when we once more sniffed the clean live airD
It seemed a piece of good luck all aroundH2
To get away once more alive and soundH2
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That's what they call a tragedy where DeathP2
Flies 'round till he himself gets out of breathP2
And with sword slashes and cold poison filledQ2
All who amount to anything get killedQ2
It's part of life some time again I'll view itQ
But take a good square rest before I do itQ
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From Arthur Selwyn's Note bookR2
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Here on this sea beach I wanderA
Why of the storms am I fonderA
Than of the sunlight above themR
And the clouds why do I love themR
Waves of the sky onward sweepingS2
Or to the ocean waves leapingS2
Why do I court this fierce dayN
Dashing my face full of sprayN
Why when the waves strike the shoreM
With their strong leonine roarM
Does my soul fiercely entreat themR
Rush out with rapture to meet themR
Why do I love to descryM
War in the fields of the skyT2
Why does the chain lightning's glareM
Ploughing blue meadows of airM
Look to my vision alwayN
Sweet as a star in the dayN
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You who in fair summer weatherM
Seek this sea city togetherM
Built for tumultuous restU2
With the famed ocean chief guestU2
Not half the pleasure you've knownV2
That I here wand'ring aloneV2
On these wet sand fields have foundH2
Hearing the ocean's own soundH2
Viewing fierce waves from afarM
Strive with the winter in warM
Storms that tumultuously rollW2
Far through my innermost soulW2
Here you encounter at lastX2
Harmonies wondrous and vastX2
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What did I find on the shoreM
Must I rehearse it once moreM

William Mckendree Carleton



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