In The Bayou Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABABBBBCC DDEDFGFG HH DDIJJJKLKBBBBMMLazy and slow through the snags and trees | A |
Move the sluggish currents half asleep | B |
Around and between the cypress knees | A |
Like black slow snakes the dark tides creep | B |
How deep is the bayou beneath the trees | A |
Knee deep | B |
Knee deep | B |
Knee deep | B |
Knee deep | B |
Croaks the big bullfrog of Reelfoot Lake | C |
From his hiding place in the draggled brake | C |
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What is the secret the slim reeds know | D |
That makes them to shake and to shiver so | D |
And the scared flags quiver from plume to foot | E |
The frogs pipe solemnly deep and slow | D |
Look under | F |
the root | G |
Look under | F |
the root | G |
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The hoarse frog croaks and the stark owl hoots | H |
Of a mystery moored in the cypress roots | H |
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Was it love turned hate Was it friend turned foe | D |
Only the frogs and the gray owl know | D |
For the white moon shrouded her face in a mist | I |
At the spurt of a pistol red and bright | J |
At the sound of a shriek that stabbed the night | J |
And the little reeds were frightened and whist | J |
But always the eddies whimper and choke | K |
And the frogs would tell if they could for they | L |
croak | K |
Deep deep | B |
Death deep | B |
Deep deep | B |
Death deep | B |
And the dark tide slides and glisters and glides | M |
Snakelike over the secret it hides | M |
Don Marquis
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