A Song Of Harvest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN OPAP| This day two hundred years ago | A |
| The wild grape by the river's side | B |
| And tasteless groundnut trailing low | A |
| The table of the woods supplied | B |
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| Unknown the apple's red and gold | C |
| The blushing tint of peach and pear | D |
| The mirror of the Powow told | C |
| No tale of orchards ripe and rare | D |
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| Wild as the fruits he scorned to till | E |
| These vales the idle Indian trod | F |
| Nor knew the glad creative skill | E |
| The joy of him who toils with God | F |
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| O Painter of the fruits and flowers | G |
| We thank Thee for thy wise design | H |
| Whereby these human hands of ours | G |
| In Nature's garden work with Thine | H |
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| And thanks that from our daily need | I |
| The joy of simple faith is born | J |
| That he who smites the summer weed | I |
| May trust Thee for the autumn corn | J |
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| Give fools their gold and knaves their power | K |
| Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall | L |
| Who sows a field or trains a flower | K |
| Or plants a tree is more than all | L |
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| For he who blesses most is blest | M |
| And God and man shall own his worth | N |
| Who toils to leave as his bequest | M |
| An added beauty to the earth | N |
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| And soon or late to all that sow | O |
| The time of harvest shall be given | P |
| The flower shall bloom the fruit shall grow | A |
| If not on earth at last in heaven | P |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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