Sweet Clover Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFGH IJK LMNOBLPQJRSIBGT UVPWPXRKYRZA2LB2 C2L| Only a few plants up and not a blossom | A |
| My clover didn't catch What is the matter | B |
| Old John comes by I show him my result | C |
| Look John My clover patch is just a failure | B |
| I wanted you to sow it Now you see | D |
| What comes of letting Hunter do your work | E |
| The ground was not plowed right or disced perhaps | F |
| Or harrowed fine enough or too little seed | G |
| Was sown | H |
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| But John who knows a clover field | I |
| Pulls up a plant and cleans the roots of soil | J |
| And studies them | K |
| - | |
| He says Look at the roots | L |
| Hunter neglected to inoculate | M |
| The seed for clover seed must always have | N |
| Clover bacteria to make it grow | O |
| And blossom In a thrifty field of clover | B |
| The roots are studded thick with tubercles | L |
| Like little warts made by bacteria | P |
| And somehow these bacteria lay hold | Q |
| Upon the nitrogen that fills the soil | J |
| And make the plants grow make them blossom too | R |
| When Hunter sowed this field he was not well | S |
| He should have hauled some top soil to this field | I |
| From some old clover field or made a culture | B |
| Of these bacteria and soaked the seed | G |
| In it before he sowed it | T |
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| As I said | U |
| Hunter was sick when he was working here | V |
| And then he ran away to Indiana | P |
| And left his wife and children Now he's back | W |
| His cough was just as bad in Indiana | P |
| As it is here A cough is pretty hard | X |
| To run away from Wife and children too | R |
| Are pretty hard to leave since thought of them | K |
| Stays with a fellow and cannot be left | Y |
| Yes Hunter's back but he can't work for you | R |
| He's straightening out his little farm and making | Z |
| Provision for his family Hunter's changed | A2 |
| He is a better man It almost seems | L |
| That Hunter's blossomed | B2 |
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| I am sorry for him | C2 |
| The doctor says he has tuberculosis | L |
Edgar Lee Masters
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