The Corn Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKM NONP IBIB QRQR BSBS| Heap high the farmer's wintry hoard | A |
| Heap high the golden corn | B |
| No richer gift has Autumn poured | A |
| From out her lavish horn | B |
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| Let other lands exulting glean | C |
| The apple from the pine | D |
| The orange from its glossy green | C |
| The cluster from the vine | D |
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| We better love the hardy gift | E |
| Our rugged vales bestow | F |
| To cheer us when the storm shall drift | E |
| Our harvest fields with snow | F |
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| Through vales of grass and meads of flowers | G |
| Our plows their furrows made | H |
| While on the hills the sun and showers | G |
| Of changeful April played | H |
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| We dropped the seed o'er hill and plain | I |
| Beneath the sun of May | J |
| And frightened from our sprouting grain | I |
| The robber crows away | J |
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| All through the long bright days of June | K |
| Its leaves grew green and | L |
| fair And waved in hot midsummer's noon | K |
| Its soft and yellow hair | M |
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| And now with Autumn's moonlit eves | N |
| Its harvest time has come | O |
| We pluck away the frosted leaves | N |
| And bear the treasure home | P |
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| Then shame on all the proud and vain | I |
| Whose folly laughs to scorn | B |
| The blessing of our hardy grain | I |
| Our wealth of golden corn | B |
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| Let earth withhold her goodly root | Q |
| Let mildew blight the rye | R |
| Give to the worm the orchard's fruit | Q |
| The wheat field to the fly | R |
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| But let the good old crop adorn | B |
| The hills our fathers trod | S |
| Still let us for his golden corn | B |
| Send up our thanks to God | S |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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