Recovering Amid The Farms Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHICJKLBM N| Every morning the sad girl brings her three sheep | A |
| and two lambs laggardly to the top of the valley | B |
| past my stone hut and onto the mountain to graze | C |
| She turned twelve last year and it was legal | D |
| for the father to take her out of school She knows | E |
| her life is over The sadness makes her fine | F |
| makes me happy Her old red sweater makes | G |
| the whole valley ring makes my solitude gleam | H |
| I watch from hiding for her sake Knowing I am | I |
| there is hard on her but it is the focus of her days | C |
| She always looks down or looks away as she passes | J |
| in the evening Except sometimes when just before | K |
| going out of sight behind the distant canebrake | L |
| she looks quickly back It is too far for me to see | B |
| but there is a moment of white if she turns her face | M |
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| Anonymous submission | N |
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