Voices Of The Night : The Reaper And The Flowers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDC EFGF HIH JKJ DLML NIOI| There is a Reaper whose name is Death | A |
| And with his sickle keen | B |
| He reaps the bearded grain at a breath | A |
| And the flowers that grow between | B |
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| 'Shall I have nought that is fair ' saith he | C |
| 'Have nought but the bearded grain | D |
| Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me | C |
| I will give them all back again ' | - |
| - | |
| He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes | E |
| He kissed their drooping leaves | F |
| It was for the Lord of Paradise | G |
| He bound them in his sheaves | F |
| - | |
| 'My Lord has need of these flowerets gay ' | - |
| The Reaper said and smiled | H |
| 'Dear tokens of the earth are they | I |
| Where he was once a child | H |
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| 'They shall all bloom in fields of light | J |
| Transplanted by my care | K |
| And saints upon their garments white | J |
| These sacred blossoms wear ' | - |
| - | |
| And the mother gave in tears and pain | D |
| The flowers she most did love | L |
| She knew she should find them all again | M |
| In the fields of light above | L |
| - | |
| O not in cruelty not in wrath | N |
| The Reaper came that day | I |
| 'Twas an angel visited the green earth | O |
| And took the flowers away | I |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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