A Harvest Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDB EFGFHF IJKJLJ MKNKOK PQRQST UVTVWTHE 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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