November Cotton Flower Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFGHHBoll weevil's coming and the winter's cold | A |
Made cotton stalks look rusty seasons old | A |
And cotton scarce as any southern snow | B |
Was vanishing the branch so pinched and slow | B |
Failed in its function as the autumn rake | C |
Drouth fighting soil had caused the soil to take | C |
All water from the streams dead birds were found | D |
In wells a hundred feet below the ground | D |
Such was the season when the flower bloomed | E |
Old folks were startled and it soon assumed | E |
Significance Superstition saw | F |
Something it had never seen before | G |
Brown eyes that loved without a trace of fear | H |
Beauty so sudden for that time of year | H |
Jean Toomer
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