The Prairie On Fire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FGFGHIHJ KLKLMFMF NONOPQPQ RSRSLKLK| The shades of evening closed around | A |
| The boundless prairies of the west | B |
| As grouped in sadness on the ground | A |
| A band of pilgrims leaned to rest | B |
| Upon the tangled weeds were laid | C |
| The mother and her youngest born | D |
| Who slept while others watched and prayed | C |
| And thus the weary night went on | E |
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| Thick darkness shrouded earth and sky | F |
| When on the whispering winds there came | G |
| The Teton's shrill and thrilling cry | F |
| And heaven was pierced with shafts of flame | G |
| The sun seemed rising through the haze | H |
| But with an aspect dread and dire | I |
| The very air appeared to blaze | H |
| O God the Prairie was on fire | J |
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| Around the centre of the plain | K |
| A belt of flame retreated denied | L |
| And like a furnace glowed the train | K |
| That walled them in on every side | L |
| And onward rolled the torrent wild | M |
| Wreathes of dense smoke obscured the sky | F |
| The mother knelt beside her child | M |
| And all save one shrieked out We die | F |
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| Not so he cried Help Clear the sedge | N |
| Strip bare a circle to the land | O |
| That done he hastened to its edge | N |
| And grasped a rifle in his hand | O |
| Dried weeds he held beside the pan | P |
| Which kindled at a flash the mass | Q |
| Now fire fight fire he said as ran | P |
| The forked flames among the grass | Q |
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| On three sides then the torrent flew | R |
| But on the fourth no more it raved | S |
| Then large and broad the circle grew | R |
| And thus the pilgrim band was saved | S |
| The flames receded far and wide | L |
| The mother had not prayed in vain | K |
| God had the Teton's arts defied | L |
| His scythe of fire had swept the plain | K |
George Pope Morris
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