The Red Flower Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDB EFGFHI JKLKMK DNONPN QRSRTR UIVIBI| In the pleasant time of Pentecost | A |
| By the little river Kyll | B |
| I followed the angler's winding path | C |
| Or waded the stream at will | B |
| And the friendly fertile German land | D |
| Lay round me green and still | B |
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| But all day long on the eastern bank | E |
| Of the river cool and clear | F |
| Where the curving track of the double rails | G |
| Was hardly seen though near | F |
| The endless trains of German troops | H |
| Went rolling down to Trier | I |
| - | |
| They packed the windows with bullet heads | J |
| And caps of hodden gray | K |
| They laughed and sang and shouted loud | L |
| When the trains were brought to a stay | K |
| They waved their hands and sang again | M |
| As they went on their iron way | K |
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| No shadow fell on the smiling land | D |
| No cloud arose in the sky | N |
| I could hear the river's quiet tune | O |
| When the trains had rattled by | N |
| But my heart sank low with a heavy sense | P |
| Of trouble I knew not why | N |
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| Then came I into a certain field | Q |
| Where the devil's paint brush spread | R |
| 'Mid the gray and green of the rolling hills | S |
| A flaring splotch of red | R |
| An evil omen a bloody sign | T |
| And a token of many dead | R |
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| I saw in a vision the field gray horde | U |
| Break forth at the devil's hour | I |
| And trample the earth into crimson mud | V |
| In the rage of the Will to Power | I |
| All this I dreamed in the valley of Kyll | B |
| At the sign of the blood red flower | I |
Henry Van Dyke
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