The Earth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO PPQQ KKHHR STSUUV WXWYY| To build a house with love for architect | A |
| Ranks first and foremost in the joys of life | B |
| And in a tiny cabin shaped for two | C |
| The space for happiness is just as great | D |
| As in a palace What a world were this | E |
| If each soul born received a plot of ground | F |
| A little plot whereon a home might rise | G |
| And beauteous green things grow | H |
| We give the dead | I |
| The idle vagrant dead the Potter's Field | J |
| Yet to the living not one inch of soil | K |
| Nay we take from them soil and sun and air | L |
| To fashion slums and hell holes for the race | M |
| And to our poor we say 'Go starve and die | N |
| As beggars die so gain your heritage ' | O |
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| II | - |
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| That was a most uncanny dream I thought the wraiths of those | P |
| Long buried in the Potter's Field in shredded shrouds arose | P |
| They said 'Against the will of God | Q |
| We have usurped the fertile sod | Q |
| Now will we make it yield ' | - |
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| Oh but it was a gruesome sight to see those phantoms toil | K |
| Each to his own small garden bent each spaded up the soil | K |
| I never knew Ghosts laboured so | H |
| Each scattered seed and watched till lo | H |
| The Graves were opulent | R |
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| Then all among the fragrant greens the silent spectral train | S |
| Walked as if breathing in the breath of plant and flower and | T |
| grain | S |
| I never knew Ghosts loved such things | U |
| Perchance it brought back early springs | U |
| Before they thought of death | V |
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| 'The mothers' milk for living babes the earth for living hosts | W |
| The clean flame for the un souled dead ' Oh strange the words of | X |
| Ghosts | W |
| 'If we had owned this little spot | Y |
| In life we need not lie and rot | Y |
| Here in a pauper's bed ' | - |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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