The Little Hill Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD BEFE GHGI BDBD| Oh here the air is sweet and still | A |
| And soft's the grass to lie on | B |
| And far away's the little hill | A |
| They took for Christ to die on | B |
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| And there's a hill across the brook | C |
| And down the brook's another | D |
| But oh the little hill they took | C |
| I think I am its mother | D |
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| The moon that saw Gethsemane | B |
| I watch it rise and set | E |
| It has so many things to see | F |
| They help it to forget | E |
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| But little hills that sit at home | G |
| So many hundred years | H |
| Remember Greece remember Rome | G |
| Remember Mary's tears | I |
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| And far away in Palestine | B |
| Sadder than any other | D |
| Grieves still the hill that I call mine | B |
| I think I am its mother | D |
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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