Daft Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHAIDJA AFJFAKD LMJMCJDJ JNANOMPM AQRQRJSJ TJUJOMPM DVFVCEFE

In the warm yellow smile of the morningA
She stands at the lattice paneB
And watches the strong young bindersC
Stride down to the fields of grainB
And she counts them over and overD
As they pass her cottage doorE
Are they six she counts them sevenF
Are they seven she counts one moreE
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When the sun swings high in the heavensG
And the reapers go shouting homeH
She calls to the household sayingA
'Make haste for the binders have comeI
And Johnnie will want his dinnerD
He was always a hungry child'J
And they answer 'Yes it ia waiting'A
Then tell you 'Her brain is wild '-
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Again in the hush of the eveningA
When the work of the day is doneF
And the binders go singing homewardJ
In the last red rays of the sunF
She will sit at the threshold waitingA
And with her withered face lights with joyK
'Come Johnnie ' she says as they pass herD
'Come into the house my boy '-
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Five summers ago her JohnnieL
Went out in the smile of the mornM
Singing across the meadowJ
Striding down through the cornM
He towered above the bindersC
Walking on either sideJ
And the mother's heart within herD
Swelled with exultant prideJ
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For he was the light of the householdJ
His brown eyes were wells of truthN
And his face was the face of the morningA
Lit with its pure fresh youthN
And his song rang out from the hilltopsO
Like the mellow blast of a hornM
And he strode o'er the fresh shorn meadowsP
And down through the rows of cornM
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But hushed were the voices of singingA
Hushed by the presence of deathQ
As back to the cottage they bore himR
In the noontide's scorching breathQ
For the heat of the sun had slain himR
Had smitten the heart in his breastJ
And he who towered above themS
Lay lower than all the restJ
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The grain grows ripe in the sunshineT
And the summers ebb and flowJ
And the binders stride to their labourU
And sing as they come and goJ
But never again from the hilltopsO
Echoes the voice like a hornM
Never up from the meadowsP
Never back from the cornM
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Yet the poor crazed brain of the motherD
Fancies him always nearV
She is blest in her strange delusionF
For she knoweth no pain nor fearV
And always she counts the bindersC
As they pass by her cottage doorE
Are they six she counts them sevenF
Are they seven she counts one moreE

Ella Wheeler Wilcox



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