Three Of A Kind. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCAB DEEEDE FECCFE GDHHGD IDDDID JBCKJB ELAAEL MDNNMD OPQQOP EMRREM| Three of us without a care | A |
| In the red September | B |
| Tramping down the roads of Maine | C |
| Making merry with the rain | C |
| With the fellow winds a fare | A |
| Where the winds remember | B |
| - | |
| Three of us with shocking hats | D |
| Tattered and unbarbered | E |
| Happy with the splash of mud | E |
| With the highways in our blood | E |
| Bearing down on Deacon Platt's | D |
| Where last year we harbored | E |
| - | |
| We've come down from Kennebec | F |
| Tramping since last Sunday | E |
| Loping down the coast of Maine | C |
| With the sea for a refrain | C |
| And the maples neck and neck | F |
| All the way to Fundy | E |
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| Sometimes lodging in an inn | G |
| Cosey as a dormouse | D |
| Sometimes sleeping on a knoll | H |
| With no rooftree but the Pole | H |
| Sometimes halely welcomed in | G |
| At an old time farmhouse | D |
| - | |
| Loafing under ledge and tree | I |
| Leaping over boulders | D |
| Sitting on the pasture bars | D |
| Hail fellow with storm or stars | D |
| Three of us alive and free | I |
| With unburdened shoulders | D |
| - | |
| Three of us with hearts like pine | J |
| That the lightnings splinter | B |
| Clean of cleave and white of grain | C |
| Three of us afoot again | K |
| With a rapture fresh and fine | J |
| As a spring in winter | B |
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| All the hills are red and gold | E |
| And the horns of vision | L |
| Call across the crackling air | A |
| Till we shout back to them there | A |
| Taken captive in the hold | E |
| Of their bluff derision | L |
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| Spray salt gusts of ocean blow | M |
| From the rocky headlands | D |
| Overhead the wild geese fly | N |
| Honking in the autumn sky | N |
| Black sinister flocks of crow | M |
| Settle on the dead lands | D |
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| Three of us in love with life | O |
| Roaming like wild cattle | P |
| With the stinging air a reel | Q |
| As a warrior might feel | Q |
| The swift orgasm of the knife | O |
| Slay him in mid battle | P |
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| Three of us to march abreast | E |
| Down the hills of morrow | M |
| With a clean heart and a few | R |
| Friends to clench the spirit to | R |
| Leave the gods to rule the rest | E |
| And good by sorrow | M |
Bliss Carman (william)
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