Laughing Corn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB BA CCC DECF AGHICBC JKHC| There was a high majestic fooling | A |
| Day before yesterday in the yellow corn | B |
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| And day after to morrow in the yellow corn | B |
| There will be high majestic fooling | A |
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| The ears ripen in late summer | C |
| And come on with a conquering laughter | C |
| Come on with a high and conquering laughter | C |
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| The long tailed blackbirds are hoarse | D |
| One of the smaller blackbirds chitters on a stalk | E |
| And a spot of red is on its shoulder | C |
| And I never heard its name in my life | F |
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| Some of the ears are bursting | A |
| A white juice works inside | G |
| Cornsilk creeps in the end and dangles in the wind | H |
| Always I never knew it any other way | I |
| The wind and the corn talk things over together | C |
| And the rain and the corn and the sun and the corn | B |
| Talk things over together | C |
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| Over the road is the farmhouse | J |
| The siding is white and a green blind is slung loose | K |
| It will not be fixed till the corn is husked | H |
| The farmer and his wife talk things over together | C |
Carl Sandburg
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