Fruit Of Earth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAABCDCCD EFEEFGHGGH IJIIJKLKKL EMEENOBOOB| The winds that blow about the world | A |
| Said Old George Jones | B |
| See here all hope to ruin hurled | A |
| See there triumphant flags unfurled | A |
| Over chance favored zones | B |
| And no man's wisdom no man's might | C |
| Foresees much les controls | D |
| Some little breeze born of the night | C |
| That brings perchance a sudden blight | C |
| Or balm for tortured souls | D |
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| But growin' things and sowin' things | E |
| And watchin' of 'em grow | F |
| Not hastenin' things or slowin' things | E |
| Nor seekin' to be knowin' things | E |
| That men may never know | F |
| 'Tis so the kind earth pays a man | G |
| 'Tis so content is made | H |
| Not work but worry slays a man | G |
| I take what tricks Fate plays a man | G |
| An' sticks to Adam's trade | H |
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| The fears that creep about the earth | I |
| Vague fears and short lived joys | J |
| What in reckonin' are they worth | I |
| Too quickly swayed by grief or mirth | I |
| We live like foolish boys | J |
| Year in year out earth mothers us | K |
| And offers livelihood | L |
| This year ill fortune bothers us | K |
| Next year her bounty smothers us | K |
| The sum of all is good | L |
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| 'Tis futile man proposes things | E |
| But Nature goes her ways | M |
| And God alone disposes things | E |
| And Time alone discloses things | E |
| That rule our future says | N |
| Earth yields me her fertility | O |
| And till she takes my bones | B |
| I'll nought of man's futility | O |
| For peace bides in humility | O |
| Said Old George Jones | B |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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