Mother Earth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGG HIJKLGII MFNOHOPP| Mother of all the high strung poets and singers departed | A |
| Mother of all the grass that weaves over their graves the glory of the field | B |
| Mother of all the manifold forms of life deep bosomed patient impassive | C |
| Silent brooder and nurse of lyrical joys and sorrows | D |
| Out of thee yea surely out of the fertile depth below thy breast | E |
| Issued in some strange way thou lying motionless voiceless | F |
| All these songs of nature rhythmical passionate yearning | G |
| Coming in music from earth but not unto earth returning | G |
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| Dust are the blood red hearts that beat in time to these measures | H |
| Thou hast taken them back to thyself secretly irresistibly | I |
| Drawing the crimson currents of life down down down | J |
| Deep into thy bosom again as a river is lost in the sand | K |
| But the souls of the singers have entered into the songs that revealed them | L |
| Passionate songs immortal songs of joy and grief and love and longing | G |
| Floating from heart to heart of thy children they echo above thee | I |
| Do they not utter thy heart the voices of those that love thee | I |
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| Long hadst thou lain like a queen transformed by some old enchantment | M |
| Into an alien shape mysterious beautiful speechless | F |
| Knowing not who thou wert till the touch of thy Lord and Lover | N |
| Working within thee awakened the man child to breathe thy secret | O |
| All of thy flowers and birds and forests and flowing waters | H |
| Are but enchanted forms to embody the life of the spirit | O |
| Thou thyself earth mother in mountain and meadow and ocean | P |
| Holdest the poem of God eternal thought and emotion | P |
Henry Van Dyke
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