The "bull Spring." Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEB FFBCDEB GGBCDEB HHBCDEB IIBCDEB JJBCDEB| When the burning sun of Summer shines from out a brassy sky | A |
| And has parched and browned the meadows and the creek's run dry | A |
| O sweet it is to wander there and hear the water sing | B |
| It's rippling song of gladness from the | C |
| Old | D |
| Bull | E |
| Spring | B |
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| Since Logan and the pioneers first stood upon its bank | F |
| And heard it gurgle from the rock and of its waters drank | F |
| With ceaseless music in its flow like silvery chimes that ring | B |
| Has been the song of gladness from the | C |
| Old | D |
| Bull | E |
| Spring | B |
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| Around about the fields and woods of old Magnolia spread | G |
| Indigenous to tansy mint and the lithe limbed thoroughbred | G |
| And far above on drowsy wing the crow seems listening | B |
| To the rippling song of gladness from the | C |
| Old | D |
| Bull | E |
| Spring | B |
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| No music that I've ever heard seems half so soft and sweet | H |
| As that in silvery tones it makes while flowing at your feet | H |
| And sometimes when I'm far away I'd give most anything | B |
| To hear the song of gladness from the | C |
| Old | D |
| Bull | E |
| Spring | B |
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| 'Tis then that fancy wanders and I sit and fondly dream | I |
| That I'm gazing in its liquid depths and see the pebbles gleam | I |
| As when in happy childhood and free from sorrow's sting | B |
| I heard the song of gladness from the | C |
| Old | D |
| Bull | E |
| Spring | B |
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| And I sniff again the flavor of the aromatic breeze | J |
| From the mint bed and the tansy as it floated through the trees | J |
| And hear music mingle of the birds upon the wing | B |
| With the laughing song of gladness from the | C |
| Old | D |
| Bull | E |
| Spring | B |
George W. Doneghy
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