The Indian Corn Planter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH| He needs must leave the trapping and the chase | A |
| For mating game his arrows ne'er despoil | B |
| And from the hunter's heaven turn his face | A |
| To wring some promise from the dormant soil | B |
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| He needs must leave the lodge that wintered him | C |
| The enervating fires the blanket bed | D |
| The women's dulcet voices for the grim | C |
| Realities of labouring for bread | D |
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| So goes he forth beneath the planter's moon | E |
| With sack of seed that pledges large increase | F |
| His simple pagan faith knows night and noon | E |
| Heat cold seedtime and harvest shall not cease | F |
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| And yielding to his needs this honest sod | G |
| Brown as the hand that tills it moist with rain | H |
| Teeming with ripe fulfilment true as God | G |
| With fostering richness mothers every grain | H |
Emily Pauline Johnson
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