The Prairie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJKLK MNONMPQP RSTSUEAE VWXWYZYZ DLTLA2B2EB2 C2| The 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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