The Bean-stalk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBCDEDFCFGHHHIHD HJKLLKLM NIOPPJJDMPPPP PPEQPQPPE| Ho Giant This is I | A |
| I have built me a bean stalk into your sky | A |
| La but it's lovely up so high | A |
| - | |
| This is how I came I put | B |
| Here my knee there my foot | B |
| Up and up from shoot to shoot | C |
| And the blessed bean stalk thinning | D |
| Like the mischief all the time | E |
| Till it took me rocking spinning | D |
| In a dizzy sunny circle | F |
| Making angles with the root | C |
| Far and out above the cackle | F |
| Of the city I was born in | G |
| Till the little dirty city | H |
| In the light so sheer and sunny | H |
| Shone as dazzling bright and pretty | H |
| As the money that you find | I |
| In a dream of finding money | H |
| What a wind What a morning | D |
| - | |
| Till the tiny shiny city | H |
| When I shot a glance below | J |
| Shaken with a giddy laughter | K |
| Sick and blissfully afraid | L |
| Was a dew drop on a blade | L |
| And a pair of moments after | K |
| Was the whirling guess I made | L |
| And the wind was like a whip | M |
| - | |
| Cracking past my icy ears | N |
| And my hair stood out behind | I |
| And my eyes were full of tears | O |
| Wide open and cold | P |
| More tears than they could hold | P |
| The wind was blowing so | J |
| And my teeth were in a row | J |
| Dry and grinning | D |
| And I felt my foot slip | M |
| And I scratched the wind and whined | P |
| And I clutched the stalk and jabbered | P |
| With my eyes shut blind | P |
| What a wind What a wind | P |
| - | |
| Your broad sky Giant | P |
| Is the shelf of a cupboard | P |
| I make bean stalks I'm | E |
| A builder like yourself | Q |
| But bean stalks is my trade | P |
| I couldn't make a shelf | Q |
| Don't know how they're made | P |
| Now a bean stalk is more pliant | P |
| La what a climb | E |
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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