A Harvest Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDB EFGFHF IJKJLJ MKNKOK PQRQST UVTVW| THE noon was as a crystal bowl | A |
| The red wine mantled through | B |
| Around it like a Viking's beard | C |
| The red gold hazes blew | B |
| As tho' he quaffed the ruddy draught | D |
| While swift his galley flew | B |
| - | |
| This mighty Viking was the Night | E |
| He sailed about the earth | F |
| And called the merry harvest time | G |
| To sing him songs of mirth | F |
| And all on earth or in the sea | H |
| To melody gave birth | F |
| - | |
| The valleys of the earth were full | I |
| To rocky lip and brim | J |
| With golden grain that shone and sang | K |
| When woods were still and dim | J |
| A little song from sheaf to sheaf | L |
| Sweet Plenty's cradle hymn | J |
| - | |
| O gallant were the high tree tops | M |
| And gay the strain they sang | K |
| And cheerfully the moon lit hills | N |
| Their echo music rang | K |
| And what so proud and what so loud | O |
| As was the ocean's clang | K |
| - | |
| But O the little humming song | P |
| That sang among the sheaves | Q |
| 'Twas grander than the airy march | R |
| That rattled thro' the leaves | Q |
| And prouder louder than the deep | S |
| Bold clanging of the waves | T |
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| 'The lives of men the lives of men | U |
| With every sheaf are bound | V |
| We are the blessing which annuls | T |
| The curse upon the ground | V |
| And he who reaps the Golden Grain | W |
| The Golden Love hath found ' | - |
Isabella Valancy Crawford
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