In The Bayou Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABABBBBCC DDEDFGFG HH DDIJJJKLKBBBBMM| Lazy 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 |
| - | |
| The hoarse frog croaks and the stark owl hoots | H |
| Of a mystery moored in the cypress roots | H |
| - | |
| 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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