Daft Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHAIDJA AFJFAKD LMJMCJDJ JNANOMPM AQRQRJSJ TJUJOMPM DVFVCEFEIn the warm yellow smile of the morning | A |
She stands at the lattice pane | B |
And watches the strong young binders | C |
Stride down to the fields of grain | B |
And she counts them over and over | D |
As they pass her cottage door | E |
Are they six she counts them seven | F |
Are they seven she counts one more | E |
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When the sun swings high in the heavens | G |
And the reapers go shouting home | H |
She calls to the household saying | A |
'Make haste for the binders have come | I |
And Johnnie will want his dinner | D |
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 evening | A |
When the work of the day is done | F |
And the binders go singing homeward | J |
In the last red rays of the sun | F |
She will sit at the threshold waiting | A |
And with her withered face lights with joy | K |
'Come Johnnie ' she says as they pass her | D |
'Come into the house my boy ' | - |
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Five summers ago her Johnnie | L |
Went out in the smile of the morn | M |
Singing across the meadow | J |
Striding down through the corn | M |
He towered above the binders | C |
Walking on either side | J |
And the mother's heart within her | D |
Swelled with exultant pride | J |
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For he was the light of the household | J |
His brown eyes were wells of truth | N |
And his face was the face of the morning | A |
Lit with its pure fresh youth | N |
And his song rang out from the hilltops | O |
Like the mellow blast of a horn | M |
And he strode o'er the fresh shorn meadows | P |
And down through the rows of corn | M |
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But hushed were the voices of singing | A |
Hushed by the presence of death | Q |
As back to the cottage they bore him | R |
In the noontide's scorching breath | Q |
For the heat of the sun had slain him | R |
Had smitten the heart in his breast | J |
And he who towered above them | S |
Lay lower than all the rest | J |
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The grain grows ripe in the sunshine | T |
And the summers ebb and flow | J |
And the binders stride to their labour | U |
And sing as they come and go | J |
But never again from the hilltops | O |
Echoes the voice like a horn | M |
Never up from the meadows | P |
Never back from the corn | M |
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Yet the poor crazed brain of the mother | D |
Fancies him always near | V |
She is blest in her strange delusion | F |
For she knoweth no pain nor fear | V |
And always she counts the binders | C |
As they pass by her cottage door | E |
Are they six she counts them seven | F |
Are they seven she counts one more | E |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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