Le Marais Du Cygne Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGHFHIJFJKLJL FMNMOJPJQRSTUVOWFXEX YZA2ZB2C2AC2GJEJD2E2 JF2G2H2I2H2IJYJA2J2G 2J2JK2L2K2| A 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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