The Path Through The Corn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGDD HHIIGGDD DDJKLLDD EEGGMMDD| WAVY and bright in the summer air | A |
| Like a pleasant sea when the wind blows fair | A |
| And its roughest breath has scarcely curled | B |
| The green highway to a distant world | B |
| Soft whispers passing from shore to shore | C |
| As from hearts content yet desiring more | C |
| Who feels forlorn | D |
| Wandering thus down the path through the corn | D |
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| A short space since and the dead leaves lay | E |
| Mouldering under the hedgerow gray | E |
| Nor hum of insect nor voice of bird | F |
| O'er the desolate field was ever heard | F |
| Only at eve the pallid snow | G |
| Blushed rose red in the red sun glow | G |
| Till one blest morn | D |
| Shot up into life the young green corn | D |
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| Small and feeble slender and pale | H |
| It bent its head to the winter gale | H |
| Hearkened the wren's soft note of cheer | I |
| Hardly believing spring was near | I |
| Saw chestnuts bud out and campions blow | G |
| And daisies mimic the vanished snow | G |
| Where it was born | D |
| On either side of the path through the corn | D |
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| The corn the corn the beautiful corn | D |
| Rising wonderful morn by morn | D |
| First scarce as high as a fairy's wand | J |
| Then just in reach of a child's wee hand | K |
| Then growing growing tall brave and strong | L |
| With the voice of new harvests in its song | L |
| While in fond scorn | D |
| The lark out carols the whispering corn | D |
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| A strange sweet path formed day by day | E |
| How when and wherefore we cannot say | E |
| No more than of our life paths we know | G |
| Whither they lead us why we go | G |
| Or whether our eyes shall ever see | M |
| The wheat in the ear or the fruit on the tree | M |
| Yet who's forlorn | D |
| He who watered the furrows can ripen the corn | D |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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