Le Marais Du Cygne Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGHFHIJFJKLJL FMNMOJPJQRSTUVOWFXEX YZA2ZB2C2AC2GJEJD2E2 JF2G2H2I2H2IJYJA2J2G 2J2JK2L2K2A BLUSH as of roses | A |
Where rose never grew | B |
Great drops on the bunch grass | C |
But not of the dew | B |
A taint in the sweet air | D |
For wild bees to shun | E |
A stain that shall never | F |
Bleach out in the sun | E |
Back steed of the prairies | G |
Sweet song bird fly back | H |
Wheel hither bald vulture | F |
Gray wolf call thy pack | H |
The foul human vultures | I |
Have feasted and fled | J |
The wolves of the Border | F |
Have crept from the dead | J |
From the hearths of their cabins | K |
The fields of their corn | L |
Unwarned and unweaponed | J |
The victims were torn | L |
By the whirlwind of murder | F |
Swooped up and swept on | M |
To the low reedy fen lands | N |
The Marsh of the Swan | M |
With a vain plea for mercy | O |
No stout knee was crooked | J |
In the mouths of the rifles | P |
Right manly they looked | J |
How paled the May sunshine | Q |
O Marais du Cygne | R |
On death for the strong life | S |
On red grass for green | T |
In the homes of their rearing | U |
Yet warm with their lives | V |
Ye wait the dead only | O |
Poor children and wives | W |
Put out the red forge fire | F |
The smith shall not come | X |
Unyoke the brown oxen | E |
The ploughman lies dumb | X |
Wind slow from the Swan's Marsh | Y |
O dreary death train | Z |
With pressed lips as bloodless | A2 |
As lips of the slain | Z |
Kiss down the young eyelids | B2 |
Smooth down the gray hairs | C2 |
Let tears quench the curses | A |
That burn through your prayers | C2 |
Strong man of the prairies | G |
Mourn bitter and wild | J |
Wail desolate woman | E |
Weep fatherless child | J |
But the grain of God springs up | D2 |
From ashes beneath | E2 |
And the crown of his harvest | J |
Is life out of death | F2 |
Not in vain on the dial | G2 |
The shade moves along | H2 |
To point the great contrasts | I2 |
Of right and of wrong | H2 |
Free homes and free altars | I |
Free prairie and flood | J |
The reeds of the Swan's Marsh | Y |
Whose bloom is of blood | J |
On the lintels of Kansas | A2 |
That blood shall not dry | J2 |
Henceforth the Bad Angel | G2 |
Shall harmless go by | J2 |
Henceforth to the sunset | J |
Unchecked on her way | K2 |
Shall Liberty follow | L2 |
The march of the day | K2 |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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