Aaron Hatfield Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEBFGBHCIJKFLMNOP QBAR| Better than granite Spoon River | A |
| Is the memory picture you keep of me | B |
| Standing before the pioneer men and women | C |
| There at Concord Church on Communion day | D |
| Speaking in broken voice of the peasant youth | E |
| Of Galilee who went to the city | B |
| And was killed by bankers and lawyers | F |
| My voice mingling with the June wind | G |
| That blew over wheat fields from Atterbury | B |
| While the white stones in the burying ground | H |
| Around the Church shimmered in the summer sun | C |
| And there though my own memories | I |
| Were too great to bear were you O pioneers | J |
| With bowed heads breathing forth your sorrow | K |
| For the sons killed in battle and the daughters | F |
| And little children who vanished in life's morning | L |
| Or at the intolerable hour of noon | M |
| But in those moments of tragic silence | N |
| When the wine and bread were passed | O |
| Came the reconciliation for us | P |
| Us the ploughmen and the hewers of wood | Q |
| Us the peasants brothers of the peasant of Galilee | B |
| To us came the Comforter | A |
| And the consolation of tongues of flame | R |
Edgar Lee Masters
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