Sunburnt Boys Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBCDED FGHGIDJD BIKILDMD INONKDID| Down on the Lumbee river | A |
| Where the eddies ripple cool | B |
| Your boat I know glides stealthily | B |
| About some shady pool | B |
| The summer's heats have lulled asleep | C |
| The fish hawk's chattering noise | D |
| And all the swamp lies hushed about | E |
| You sunburnt boys | D |
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| You see the minnow's waves that rock | F |
| The cradled lily leaves | G |
| From a far field some farmer's song | H |
| Singing among his sheaves | G |
| Comes mellow to you where you sit | I |
| Each man with boatman's poise | D |
| There in the shimmering water lights | J |
| You sunburnt boys | D |
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| I know your haunts each gnarly bole | B |
| That guards the waterside | I |
| Each tuft of flags and rushes where | K |
| The river reptiles hide | I |
| Each dimpling nook wherein the bass | L |
| His eager life employs | D |
| Until he dies the captive of | M |
| You sunburnt boys | D |
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| You will not will you soon forget | I |
| When I was one of you | N |
| Nor love me less that time has borne | O |
| My craft to currents new | N |
| Nor shall I ever cease to share | K |
| Your hardships and your joys | D |
| Robust rough spoken gentle hearted | I |
| Sunburnt boys | D |
John Charles Mcneill
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