The Vagabonds Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC DD EE FF GG HH GG II JJ KK LL MM NN| What saw you in your flight to day | A |
| Crows awinging your homeward way | A |
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| Went you far in carrion quest | B |
| Crows that worry the sunless west | B |
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| Thieves and villains you shameless things | C |
| Black your record as black your wings | C |
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| Tell me birds of the inky hue | D |
| Plunderous rogues to day have you | D |
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| Seen with mischievous prying eyes | E |
| Lands where earlier suns arise | E |
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| Saw you a lazy beck between | F |
| Trees that shadow its breast in green | F |
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| Teased by obstinate stones that lie | G |
| Crossing the current tauntingly | G |
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| Fields abloom on the farther side | H |
| With purpling clover lying wide | H |
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| Saw you there as you circled by | G |
| Vale environed a cottage lie | G |
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| Girt about with emerald bands | I |
| Nestling down in its meadow lands | I |
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| Saw you this on your thieving raids | J |
| Speak you rascally renegades | J |
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| Thieved you also away from me | K |
| Olden scenes that I long to see | K |
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| If O crows you have flown since morn | L |
| Over the place where I was born | L |
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| Forget will I how black you were | M |
| Since dawn in feather and character | M |
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| Absolve will I your vagrant band | N |
| Ere you enter your slumberland | N |
Emily Pauline Johnson
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