The Willow Bottom Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CCCC CDCD EFEG CCCC HIHI| Lush green the grass that grows between | A |
| The willows of the bottom land | B |
| Verged by the careless water tall and green | A |
| The brown topped cat tails stand | B |
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| The cows come gently here to browse | C |
| Slow through the great leafed sycamores | C |
| You hear a dog bark from a low roofed house | C |
| With cedars round its doors | C |
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| Then all is quiet as the wings | C |
| Of the high buzzard floating there | D |
| Anon a woman's high pitched voice that sings | C |
| An old camp meeting air | D |
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| A flapping cock that crows and then | E |
| Heard drowsy through the rustling corn | F |
| A flutter and the cackling of a hen | E |
| Within a hay sweet barn | G |
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| How still again no water stirs | C |
| No wind is heard although the weeds | C |
| Are waved a little and from silk filled burrs | C |
| Drift by a few soft seeds | C |
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| So drugged with sleep and dreams that you | H |
| Expect to see her gliding by | I |
| Hummed round of bees through blossoms spilling dew | H |
| The Spirit of July | I |
Madison Julius Cawein
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