Ballad Of A Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEBED EFCEEFGE HIGEJIEE EEGEKEBE LMNCOMPC EEQREESR TEEEKEJE EUOUSUCU EESEAECE VWTDQWXD| Yearly thrilled the plum tree | A |
| With the mother mood | B |
| Every June the rose stock | C |
| Bore her wonder child | D |
| Every year the wheatlands | E |
| Reared a golden brood | B |
| World of praying Rachaels | E |
| Heard and reconciled | D |
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| Poet said the plum tree's | E |
| Singing white and green | F |
| What avails your mooning | C |
| Can you fashion plums | E |
| Dreamer crooned the wheatland's | E |
| Rippling vocal sheen | F |
| See my golden children | G |
| Marching as with drums | E |
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| By a god begotten | H |
| Hymned the sunning vine | I |
| In my lyric children | G |
| Purple music flows | E |
| Singer breathed the rose bush | J |
| Are they not divine | I |
| Have you any daughters | E |
| Mighty as a rose | E |
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| Happy happy mothers | E |
| Cruel cruel words | E |
| Mine are ghostly children | G |
| Haunting all the ways | E |
| Latent in the plum bloom | K |
| Calling through the birds | E |
| Romping with the wheat brood | B |
| In their shadow plays | E |
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| Gotten out of star glint | L |
| Mothered of the Moon | M |
| Nurtured with the rose scent | N |
| Wild elusive throng | C |
| Something of the vine's dream | O |
| Crept into a tune | M |
| Something of the wheat drone | P |
| Echoed in a song | C |
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| Once again the white fires | E |
| Smoked among the plums | E |
| Once again the world joy | Q |
| Burst the crimson bud | R |
| Golden bannered wheat broods | E |
| Marched to fairy drums | E |
| Once again the vineyard | S |
| Felt the Bacchic blood | R |
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| Lo he comes the dreamer | T |
| Crooned the whitened boughs | E |
| Quick with vernal love fires | E |
| Oh at last he knows | E |
| See the bursting plum bloom | K |
| There above his brows | E |
| Boaster breathed the rose bush | J |
| 'Tis a budding rose | E |
| - | |
| Droned the glinting acres | E |
| In his soul mayhap | U |
| Something like a wheat dream | O |
| Quickens into shape | U |
| Sang the sunning vineyard | S |
| Lo the lyric sap | U |
| Sets his heart a throbbing | C |
| Like a purple grape | U |
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| Mother of the wheatlands | E |
| Mother of the plums | E |
| Mother of the vineyard | S |
| All that loves and grows | E |
| Such a living glory | A |
| To the dreamer comes | E |
| Mystic as a wheat song | C |
| Mighty as a rose | E |
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| Star glint moon glow | V |
| Gathered in a mesh | W |
| Spring hope white fire | T |
| By a kiss beguiled | D |
| Something of the world joy | Q |
| Dreaming into flesh | W |
| Bird song vine thrill | X |
| Quickened to a child | D |
John G. Neihardt
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