Noonday Rest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ DDDD| THE willows whisper very very low | A |
| Unto the listening breeze | B |
| Sometimes they lose a leaf which flickering slow | A |
| Faints on the sunburnt leas | B |
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| Beneath the whispering boughs and simmering skies | C |
| On the hot ground at rest | D |
| Still as a stone a ragged woman lies | C |
| Her baby at the breast | D |
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| Nibbling around her browse monotonous sheep | E |
| Flies buzz about her head | F |
| Her heavy eyes are shuttered by a sleep | E |
| As of the slumbering dead | F |
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| The happy birds that live to love and sing | G |
| Flitting from bough to bough | H |
| Peer softly at this ghastly human thing | G |
| With grizzled hair and brow | H |
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| O'er what strange ways may not these feet have trod | I |
| That match the cracking clay | J |
| Man had no pity on her no nor God | I |
| A nameless castaway | J |
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| But Mother Earth now hugs her to her breast | D |
| Defiled or undefiled | D |
| And willows rock the weary soul to rest | D |
| As she even she her child | D |
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