The Sower Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIK LMLM NONO IMIM GPGP| The winds had hushed at last as by command | A |
| The quiet sky above | B |
| With its grey clouds spread oer the fallow land | A |
| Sat brooding like a dove | B |
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| There was no motion in the air no sound | C |
| Within the tree tops stirred | D |
| Save when some last leaf fluttering to the ground | C |
| Dropped like a wounded bird | D |
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| Or when the swart rooks in a gathering crowd | E |
| With clamorous noises wheeled | F |
| Hovering awhile then swooped with wrangling loud | E |
| Down to the stubbly field | F |
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| For now the big thewed horses toiling slow | G |
| In straining couples yoked | H |
| Patiently dragged the plowshare to and fro | G |
| Till their wet haunches smoked | H |
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| Till the stiff acre broken into clods | I |
| Bruised by the harrow's tooth | J |
| Lay lightly shaken with its humid sods | I |
| Ranged into furrows smooth | K |
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| There looming lone from rise to set of sun | L |
| Without or pause or speed | M |
| Solemnly striding by the furrows dun | L |
| The sower sows the seed | M |
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| The sower sows the seed which mouldering | N |
| Deep coffined in the earth | O |
| Is buried now but with the future spring | N |
| Will quicken into birth | O |
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| Oh poles of birth and death Controlling Powers | I |
| Of human toil and need | M |
| On this fair earth all men are surely sowers | I |
| Surely all life is seed | M |
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| All life is seed dropped in Time's yawning furrow | G |
| Which with slow sprout and shoot | P |
| In the revolving world's unfathomed morrow | G |
| Will blossom and bear fruit | P |
Mathilde Blind
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