Milkmaid Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGE HIAA AJAJ| The girl's far treble muted to the heat | A |
| calls like a fainting bird across the fields | B |
| to where her flock lies panting for her voice | C |
| their black horns buried deep in marigolds | D |
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| They climb awake like drowsy butterflies | E |
| and press their red flanks through the tall branched grass | F |
| and as they go their wandering tongues embrace | G |
| the vacant summer mirrored in their eyes | E |
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| Led to the limestone shadows of a barn | H |
| they snuff their past embalmed in the hay | I |
| while her cool hand cupped to the udder's fount | A |
| distils the brimming harvest of their day | A |
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| Look what a cloudy cream the earth gives out | A |
| fat juice of buttercups and meadow rye | J |
| the girl dreams milk within her body's field | A |
| and hears far off her muted children cry | J |
Laurie Lee
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