Le Marais Du Cygne Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGHFHIJFJKLJL FMNMOJPJQRSTUVOWFXEX YZA2ZB2C2AC2GJEJD2E2 JF2G2H2I2H2IJYJA2J2G 2J2JK2L2K2

A BLUSH as of rosesA
Where rose never grewB
Great drops on the bunch grassC
But not of the dewB
A taint in the sweet airD
For wild bees to shunE
A stain that shall neverF
Bleach out in the sunE
Back steed of the prairiesG
Sweet song bird fly backH
Wheel hither bald vultureF
Gray wolf call thy packH
The foul human vulturesI
Have feasted and fledJ
The wolves of the BorderF
Have crept from the deadJ
From the hearths of their cabinsK
The fields of their cornL
Unwarned and unweaponedJ
The victims were tornL
By the whirlwind of murderF
Swooped up and swept onM
To the low reedy fen landsN
The Marsh of the SwanM
With a vain plea for mercyO
No stout knee was crookedJ
In the mouths of the riflesP
Right manly they lookedJ
How paled the May sunshineQ
O Marais du CygneR
On death for the strong lifeS
On red grass for greenT
In the homes of their rearingU
Yet warm with their livesV
Ye wait the dead onlyO
Poor children and wivesW
Put out the red forge fireF
The smith shall not comeX
Unyoke the brown oxenE
The ploughman lies dumbX
Wind slow from the Swan's MarshY
O dreary death trainZ
With pressed lips as bloodlessA2
As lips of the slainZ
Kiss down the young eyelidsB2
Smooth down the gray hairsC2
Let tears quench the cursesA
That burn through your prayersC2
Strong man of the prairiesG
Mourn bitter and wildJ
Wail desolate womanE
Weep fatherless childJ
But the grain of God springs upD2
From ashes beneathE2
And the crown of his harvestJ
Is life out of deathF2
Not in vain on the dialG2
The shade moves alongH2
To point the great contrastsI2
Of right and of wrongH2
Free homes and free altarsI
Free prairie and floodJ
The reeds of the Swan's MarshY
Whose bloom is of bloodJ
On the lintels of KansasA2
That blood shall not dryJ2
Henceforth the Bad AngelG2
Shall harmless go byJ2
Henceforth to the sunsetJ
Unchecked on her wayK2
Shall Liberty followL2
The march of the dayK2

John Greenleaf Whittier



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