Harvest Hymn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FFGHIIJJEE KKLLMMNNKK| Now autumn strews on every plain | A |
| His mellow fruits and fertile grain | A |
| And laughing plenty crown'd with sheaves | B |
| With purple grapes and spreading leaves | B |
| In rich profusion pours around | C |
| Her flowing treasures on the ground | C |
| Oh mark the great the liberal hand | D |
| That scatters blessings o'er the land | D |
| And to the God of nature raise | E |
| The grateful song the hymn of praise | E |
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| The infant corn in vernal hours | F |
| He nurtured with his gentle showers | F |
| And bade the summer clouds diffuse | G |
| Their balmy store of genial dews | H |
| He mark'd the tender stem arise | I |
| Till ripen'd by the glowing skies | I |
| And now matured his work behold | J |
| The cheering harvest waves in gold | J |
| To nature's God with joy we raise | E |
| The grateful song the hymn of praise | E |
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| The valleys echo to the strains | K |
| Of blooming maids and village swains | K |
| To him they tune the lay sincere | L |
| Whose bounty crowns the smiling year | L |
| The sounds from every woodland borne | M |
| The sighing winds that bend the corn | M |
| The yellow fields around proclaim | N |
| His mighty everlasting name | N |
| To nature's God united raise | K |
| The grateful song the hymn of praise | K |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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Connie Scanlan: Some confusion about male or female attribution to harvest's bounty. Other than that, a beautiful, generous, colorful tribute to Harvest. Just what I was looking for! Warmed my mid-west heart.
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