Where The Pelican Builds Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDECE FGEGHEEE IDJDEEEE| The horses were ready the rails were down | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp But the riders lingered still | B |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp One had a parting word to say | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And one had his pipe to fill | B |
| Then they mounted one with a granted prayer | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And one with a grief unguessed | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp We are going they said as they rode away | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Where the pelican builds her nest | E |
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| They had told us of pastures wide and green | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp To be sought past the sunset's glow | G |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Of rifts in the ranges by opal lit | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And gold 'neath the river's flow | G |
| And thirst and hunger were banished words | H |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp When they spoke of that unknown West | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp No drought they dreaded no flood they feared | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Where the pelican builds her nest | E |
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| The creek at the ford was but fetlock deep | I |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp When we watched them crossing there | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The rains have replenished it thrice since then | J |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And thrice has the rock lain bare | D |
| But the waters of Hope have flowed and fled | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And never from blue hill's breast | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Come back by the sun and the sands devoured | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Where the pelican builds her nest | E |
Mary Hannay Foott
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