Sunset Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEEFG HIIJKLMN EOG PEQRSTU UVQWG EOXYZEA2 B2C2ED2E2F2G2H2EEI2J 2G K2L2B2M2B2KN2O2NP2 Q2B2DEB2R2EFCG| I know you are not cruel | A |
| And you would not willingly hurt anything in the world | B |
| There is kindness in your eyes | C |
| There could not very well be more of it in eyes | C |
| Already brimful of the sky | D |
| I thought you would some day begin to love me | E |
| But now I doubt it badly | E |
| It is no man rival I am afraid of | F |
| It is God | G |
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| The meadows are very wide and green | H |
| And the big field of wheat is solid gold | I |
| Or a little darker than gold | I |
| Two people never sat like us by a fence of cedar rails | J |
| On a still evening | K |
| And looked at such fat fields | L |
| To me it is beautiful enough | M |
| I am stirred | N |
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| I say grand and wonderful and grow adjectival | E |
| But to you | O |
| It is God | G |
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| Cropping the clover are several spotted cows | P |
| They too are kind and gentle | E |
| And they stop and look round at me now and then | Q |
| As if they would say | R |
| 'How good of you to come to see us | S |
| Please pardon us if we seem indifferent | T |
| But we have not much time to talk with you now | U |
| And really nothing to say ' | - |
| Then they make their bow | U |
| Still kind and calm | V |
| And go their way again | Q |
| Towards the sunset | W |
| I suppose they are going to God | G |
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| Your eyes are not regarding me | E |
| Nor the four leaf clovers I picked for you | O |
| With a prayer and a gentle squeeze for each of them | X |
| Nor are they fretting over dress and shoes | Y |
| And image in the little glass | Z |
| Restlessly | E |
| Like the eyes of other girls | A2 |
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| You are looking away over yonder | B2 |
| To where the crooked rail fence gets to the top | C2 |
| Of the yellow hill | E |
| And drops out of sight | D2 |
| Into space | E2 |
| Is that infinity that catches it | F2 |
| And do you catch it too in your thoughts | G2 |
| I know that look | H2 |
| I have not seen it on another girl | E |
| And it terrifies me | E |
| For I cannot tell what it means | I2 |
| But I think | J2 |
| It has something to do with God | G |
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| We are a mile from home | K2 |
| And soon it will be getting dark | L2 |
| And the big farm bell will be ringing out for supper | B2 |
| We had better start for the house | M2 |
| Rover | B2 |
| O here he is waiting | K |
| He has chased the rabbits and run after the birds | N2 |
| A thousand miles or so | O2 |
| And now he is hungry and tired | N |
| But he is a southern gentleman | P2 |
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| And will not whimper once | Q2 |
| Though you kept him waiting forever | B2 |
| He knows his mistress' eyes as well as I | D |
| And when to be silent and respectful | E |
| I will try to be as patient as Rover | B2 |
| And we will be comrades and wait | R2 |
| Unquestioningly | E |
| Till this lady we love | F |
| And her strange eyes | C |
| Come home from God | G |
John Crowe Ransom
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