The Poetry Of A Root Crop Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFFGGHHCCIIJJ CUnderneath their eider robe | A |
Russet swede and golden globe | A |
Feathered carrot burrowing deep | B |
Steadfast wait in charmed sleep | B |
Treasure houses wherein lie | C |
Locked by angels' alchemy | D |
Milk and hair and blood and bone | E |
Children of the barren stone | E |
Children of the flaming Air | F |
With his blue eye keen and bare | F |
Spirit peopled smiling down | G |
On frozen field and toiling town | G |
Toiling town that will not heed | H |
God His voice for rage and greed | H |
Frozen fields that surpliced lie | C |
Gazing patient at the sky | C |
Like some marble carven nun | I |
With folded hands when work is done | I |
Who mute upon her tomb doth pray | J |
Till the resurrection day | J |
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Eversley | C |
Charles Kingsley
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