The Prairie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJKLK MNONMPQP RSTSUEAE VWXWYZYZ DLTLA2B2EB2 C2The skies are blue above my head | A |
The prairie green below | B |
And flickering o'er the tufted grass | C |
The shifting shadows go | B |
Vague sailing where the feathery clouds | D |
Fleck white the tranquil skies | E |
Black javelins darting where aloft | F |
The whirring pheasant flies | E |
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A glimmering plain in drowsy trance | G |
The dim horizon bounds | H |
Where all the air is resonant | I |
With sleepy summer sounds | H |
The life that sings among the flowers | J |
The lisping of the breeze | K |
The hot cicala's sultry cry | L |
The murmurous dream of bees | K |
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The butterfly a flying flower | M |
Wheels swift in flashing rings | N |
And flutters round his quiet kin | O |
With brave flame mottled wings | N |
The wild Pinks burst in crimson fire | M |
The Phlox' bright clusters shine | P |
And Prairie Cups are swinging free | Q |
To spill their airy wine | P |
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And lavishly beneath the sun | R |
In liberal splendour rolled | S |
The Fennel fills the dipping plain | T |
With floods of flowery gold | S |
And widely weaves the Iron Weed | U |
A woof of purple dyes | E |
Where Autumn's royal feet may tread | A |
When bankrupt Summer flies | E |
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In verdurous tumult far away | V |
The prairie billows gleam | W |
Upon their crests in blessing rests | X |
The noontide's gracious beam | W |
Low quivering vapours steaming dim | Y |
The level splendours break | Z |
Where languid Lilies deck the rim | Y |
Of some land circled lake | Z |
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Far in the east like low hung clouds | D |
The waving woodlands lie | L |
Far in the west the glowing plain | T |
Melts warmly in the sky | L |
No accent wounds the reverent air | A2 |
No footprint dints the sod | B2 |
Lone in the light the prairie lies | E |
Rapt in a dream of God | B2 |
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ILLINOIS | C2 |
John Milton Hay
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