On The Farm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBBBDC A EFEGEDF A HIHHHDI J KLKKKDL| I | A |
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| He sang a song as he sowed the field | B |
| Sowed the field at break of day | C |
| When the pursed up leaves are as lips that yield | B |
| Balm and balsam and Spring concealed | B |
| In the odorous green is so revealed | B |
| Halloo and oh | D |
| Hallo for the woods and the far away | C |
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| II | A |
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| He trilled a song as he mowed the mead | E |
| Mowed the mead as noon begun | F |
| When the hills are gold with the ripened seed | E |
| As the sunset stairs that loom and lead | G |
| To the sky where Summer knows naught of need | E |
| Halloo and oh | D |
| Hallo for the hills and the harvest sun | F |
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| III | A |
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| He hummed a song as he swung the flail | H |
| Swung the flail in the afternoon | I |
| When the idle fields are a wrecker's tale | H |
| That the Autumn tells to the twilight pale | H |
| As the Year turns seaward a crimson sail | H |
| Halloo and oh | D |
| Hallo for the fields and the hunter's moon | I |
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| IV | J |
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| He whistled a song as he shouldered his axe | K |
| Shouldered his axe in the evening storm | L |
| When the snow of the road shows the rabbit's tracks | K |
| And the wind is a whip that the Winter cracks | K |
| With a herdsman's cry o'er the clouds' black backs | K |
| Halloo and oh | D |
| Hallo for home and a hearth to warm | L |
Madison Julius Cawein
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