Earth's Lyric Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEBE BFGF BHBH AIJK CLBL BDMD| April You hearken my fellow | A |
| Old slumberer down in my heart | B |
| There's a whooping of ice in the rivers | C |
| The sap feels a start | B |
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| The snow melted torrents are brawling | D |
| The hills orange misted and blue | E |
| Are touched with the voice of the rainbird | B |
| Unsullied and new | E |
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| The houses of frost are deserted | B |
| Their slumber is broken and done | F |
| And empty and pale are the portals | G |
| Awaiting the sun | F |
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| The bands of Arcturus are slackened | B |
| Orion goes forth from his place | H |
| On the slopes of the night leading homeward | B |
| His hound from the chase | H |
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| The Pleiades weary and follow | A |
| The dance of the ghostly dawn | I |
| The revel of silence is over | J |
| Earth's lyric comes on | K |
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| A golden flute in the cedars | C |
| A silver pipe in the swales | L |
| And the slow large life of the forest | B |
| Wells bade and prevails | L |
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| A breath of the woodland spirit | B |
| Has blown out the bubble of spring | D |
| To this tenuous hyaline glory | M |
| One touch sets a wing | D |
Bliss Carman (william)
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