Mummy Wheat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFG HIIH JKKJ| LAID close to Death these many thousand years | A |
| In this small seed Life hid herself and smiled | B |
| So well she hid Death was at least beguiled | B |
| Set free the grain and lo the sevenfold ears | A |
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| Warmed by the sun wooed by the wind's soft word | C |
| Under blue canopy they hold their state | D |
| For this ah was it not worth while to wait | D |
| Through all the centuries of hope deferred | C |
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| What could they know who laid the seed with Death | E |
| Of this Divine fruition fixed and planned | F |
| Love since Life parts us lend my hand your hand | F |
| And look with me into the eyes of faith | G |
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| For here between your hand and mine there lies | H |
| A little seed we trust to Death to keep | I |
| Through unimagined centuries of sleep | I |
| Until the day when Life shall bid it rise | H |
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| Our harvest waits us Who knows where or how | J |
| What worlds away wrapped in what coil of pain | K |
| But Life shall bid us pluck gold sevenfold grain | K |
| Grown from the love she bids us bury now | J |
Edith Nesbit
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