Georgia Dusk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHH IJJI KLLK MNNM| The sky lazily disdaining to pursue | A |
| The setting sun too indolent to hold | B |
| A lengthened tournament for flashing gold | B |
| Passively darkens for night's barbeque | A |
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| A feast of moon and men and barking hounds | C |
| An orgy for some genius of the South | D |
| With blood hot eyes and cane lipped scented mouth | D |
| Surprised in making folk songs from soul sounds | C |
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| The sawmill blows its whistle buzz saws stop | E |
| And silence breaks the bud of knoll and hill | F |
| Soft settling pollen where plowed lands fulfill | F |
| Their early promise of a bumper crop | E |
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| Smoke from the pyramidal sawdust pile | G |
| Curls up blue ghosts of trees tarrying low | H |
| Where only chips and stumps are left to show | H |
| The solid proof of former domicile | H |
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| Meanwhile the men with vestiges of pomp | I |
| Race memories of king and caravan | J |
| High priests an ostrich and a juju man | J |
| Go singing through the footpaths of the swamp | I |
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| Their voices rise the pine trees are guitars | K |
| Strumming pine needles fall like sheets of rain | L |
| Their voices rise the chorus of the cane | L |
| Is caroling a vesper to the stars | K |
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| O singers resinous and soft your songs | M |
| Above the sacred whisper of the pines | N |
| Give virgin lips to cornfield concubines | N |
| Being dreams of Christ to dusky cane lipped throngs | M |
Jean Toomer
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