Crane Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFFGHI JJKFL MNOPQ FFRSTUVFF| I KNOW you Crane | A |
| I too have waited | B |
| Waited until my heart | C |
| Melted to little pools around my feet | D |
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| Comer in the morning ere the crows | E |
| Shunner | F |
| Searcher | F |
| Something find for me | G |
| The pennies that were laid upon the eyes | H |
| Of old wise men I knew | I |
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| The Little Fox | J |
| THAT sidling creature is a little Fox | J |
| Like other canine he is leashed and led | K |
| He goes upon the sidewalk houses tower | F |
| Men trample horses rear he drags his leash | L |
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| Did not I | M |
| Once know a lad from Irrus where they leave | N |
| Mittens for foxes where they invite | O |
| A fox to a child's christening where they have | P |
| Foxes as gossips to their boys and girls | Q |
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| Would that a lad from Irrus now was here | F |
| To tell his gossip that a human creature | F |
| Has heart for him and fain would cover up | R |
| His bowels of dread and find some way to bring | S |
| His rainy hills around him the soft grass | T |
| Darkness of ragged hedges and his earth | U |
| The black damp earth under the roots of trees | V |
| Would that a lad from Irrus now was here | F |
| Where houses tower and where horses rear | F |
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