Seed-time And Harvest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFGHHIIHHJJKK HHLLMMHHENOO| As o'er his furrowed fields which lie | A |
| Beneath a coldly dropping sky | A |
| Yet chill with winter's melted snow | B |
| The husbandman goes forth to sow | C |
| Thus Freedom on the bitter blast | D |
| The ventures of thy seed we cast | D |
| And trust to warmer sun and rain | E |
| To swell the germs and fill the grain | E |
| Who calls thy glorious service hard | F |
| Who deems it not its own reward | G |
| Who for its trials counts it less | H |
| A cause of praise and thankfulness | H |
| It may not be our lot to wield | I |
| The sickle in the ripened field | I |
| Nor ours to hear on summer eves | H |
| The reaper's song among the sheaves | H |
| Yet where our duty's task is wrought | J |
| In unison with God's great thought | J |
| The near and future blend in one | K |
| And whatsoe'er is willed is done | K |
| And ours the grateful service whence | H |
| Comes day by day the recompense | H |
| The hope the trust the purpose stayed | L |
| The fountain and the noonday shade | L |
| And were this life the utmost span | M |
| The only end and aim of man | M |
| Better the toil of fields like these | H |
| Than waking dream and slothful ease | H |
| But life though falling like our grain | E |
| Like that revives and springs again | N |
| And early called how blest are they | O |
| Who wait in heaven their harvest day | O |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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