Wild Oats Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBABCBC BDDBEFFE GHHIBCCB| Oh gay young husbandmen would you be sure of a crop | A |
| Upspringing rankly an abundant and bountiful yield | B |
| Go forth in the morning and sow on your life's broad field | B |
| This pleasantly odorous seed then smooth the ground on top | A |
| Or leave it rough with the utmost undeceit | B |
| Never you fear it will thriftily thrive and grow | C |
| Loading the harvest plain beneath your feet | B |
| With the ripened sheaves of shame remorse and woe | C |
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| You have but to sow the seed no care will it want | B |
| For he who soweth tares while the husbandman sleeps | D |
| Taketh unwearied pains a vigilant guard he keeps | D |
| Tirelessly watching and tending each evil plant | B |
| These are his pleasure gardens leased to him through time | E |
| Where he walketh to and fro chanting a demon song | F |
| Tending with ghastly fingers the scarlet buds of wrong | F |
| And drinking greedily in the sweet perfume of crime | E |
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| And of all the seeds the one that thriftiest thrives | G |
| Is the color of ruby wine when it flashes high | H |
| Who would think the tiny seed so fair to the eye | H |
| Could cast such a deadly shade over countless lives | I |
| And branch out into murder in one springing shoot | B |
| Thrifty branches of sin bristling with thorns of woe | C |
| Shadowing graves where broken hearts lie low | C |
| And minds that were God like lowered beneath the brute | B |
Marietta Holley
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