God's Green Book Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBBCBD E FGFGBBHBI E JKJKLLMLM| Out out in the open fields | A |
| Where the great green book of God | B |
| The book that its wisdom yields | A |
| To each soul that is not a clod | B |
| Lies wide for the world to read | B |
| I would go and in flower and weed | B |
| That letter the lines of the grass | C |
| Would read of a better creed | B |
| Than that which the town world has | D |
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| II | E |
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| Too long in the city streets | F |
| The alleys of grime and sin | G |
| Have I heard the iron beats | F |
| Of the heart of toil whose din | G |
| And the throb of whose wild unrest | B |
| Have stunned the song in my breast | B |
| Have marred its music and slain | H |
| The bird that was once its guest | B |
| And my soul would find it again | I |
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| III | E |
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| Out there where the great green book | J |
| Whose leaves are the grass and trees | K |
| Lies open where each may look | J |
| May muse and read as he please | K |
| The book that is gilt with gleams | L |
| Whose pages are ribboned with streams | L |
| That says what our souls would say | M |
| Of beauty that 's wrought of dreams | L |
| And buds and blossoms of May | M |
Madison Julius Cawein
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