The Hill Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC BDEFGC HIC JKLBMNC AIOIC PQRCSTUVIWXYZ| Where are Elmer Herman Bert Tom and Charley | A |
| The weak of will the strong of arm the clown the boozer the fighter | B |
| All all are sleeping on the hill | C |
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| One passed in a fever | B |
| One was burned in a mine | D |
| One was killed in a brawl | E |
| One died in a jail | F |
| One fell from a bridge toiling for children and wife | G |
| All all are sleeping sleeping sleeping on the hill | C |
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| Where are Ella Kate Mag Lizzie and Edith | H |
| The tender heart the simple soul the loud the proud the happy one | I |
| All all are sleeping on the hill | C |
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| One died in shameful child birth | J |
| One of a thwarted love | K |
| One at the hands of a brute in a brothel | L |
| One of a broken pride in the search for heart's desire | B |
| One after life in far away London and Paris | M |
| Was brought to her little space by Ella and Kate and Mag | N |
| All all are sleeping sleeping sleeping on the hill | C |
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| Where are Uncle Isaac and Aunt Emily | A |
| And old Towny Kincaid and Sevigne Houghton | I |
| And Major Walker who had talked | O |
| With venerable men of the revolution | I |
| All all are sleeping on the hill | C |
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| They brought them dead sons from the war | P |
| And daughters whom life had crushed | Q |
| And their children fatherless crying | R |
| All all are sleeping sleeping sleeping on the hill | C |
| Where is Old Fiddler Jones | S |
| Who played with life all his ninety years | T |
| Braving the sleet with bared breast | U |
| Drinking rioting thinking neither of wife nor kin | V |
| Nor gold nor love nor heaven | I |
| Lo he babbles of the fish frys of long ago | W |
| Of the horse races of long ago at Clary's Grove | X |
| Of what Abe Lincoln said | Y |
| One time at Springfield | Z |
Edgar Lee Masters
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