Folk Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJK LLMM| When merry milkmaids to their cattle call | A |
| At evenfall | A |
| And voices range | B |
| Loud through the gloam from grange to quiet grange | B |
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| Wild waif songs from long distant lands and loves | C |
| Like migrant doves | C |
| Wake and give wing | D |
| To passion dust dumb lips were wont to sing | D |
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| The new still holds the old moon in her arms | E |
| The ancient charms | E |
| Of dew and dusk | F |
| Still lure her nomad odors from the musk | F |
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| And at each day's millennial eclipse | G |
| On new men's lips | G |
| Some old song starts | H |
| Made of the music of millennial hearts | H |
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| Whereto one listens as from long ago | I |
| And learns to know | I |
| That one day's tears | J |
| And love and life are as a thousand years' | K |
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| And that some simple shepherd singing of | L |
| His pain and love | L |
| May haply find | M |
| His heart song speaks the heart of all his kind | M |
John Charles Mcneill
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