A Harvest Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDB EFGFHF IJKJLJ MKNKOK PQRQST UVTVW

THE noon was as a crystal bowlA
The red wine mantled throughB
Around it like a Viking's beardC
The red gold hazes blewB
As tho' he quaffed the ruddy draughtD
While swift his galley flewB
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This mighty Viking was the NightE
He sailed about the earthF
And called the merry harvest timeG
To sing him songs of mirthF
And all on earth or in the seaH
To melody gave birthF
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The valleys of the earth were fullI
To rocky lip and brimJ
With golden grain that shone and sangK
When woods were still and dimJ
A little song from sheaf to sheafL
Sweet Plenty's cradle hymnJ
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O gallant were the high tree topsM
And gay the strain they sangK
And cheerfully the moon lit hillsN
Their echo music rangK
And what so proud and what so loudO
As was the ocean's clangK
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But O the little humming songP
That sang among the sheavesQ
'Twas grander than the airy marchR
That rattled thro' the leavesQ
And prouder louder than the deepS
Bold clanging of the wavesT
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'The lives of men the lives of menU
With every sheaf are boundV
We are the blessing which annulsT
The curse upon the groundV
And he who reaps the Golden GrainW
The Golden Love hath found '-

Isabella Valancy Crawford



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