The Furrow And The Hearth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHI JKLMN OPQBRSTUVW ABXYQ ZA2B2A2 MC2D2C2 E2AF2A G2H2I2H2 J2K2L2K2 M2LN2L O2YQYI | A |
STRIDE the hill Sower | B |
Up to the sky ridge | C |
Flinging the seed | D |
Scattering exultant | E |
Mouthing great rhythms | F |
To the long sea beats | G |
On the wide shore behind | H |
The ridge of the hillside | I |
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Below in the darkness | J |
The slumber of mothers | K |
The cradles at rest | L |
The fire seed sleeping | M |
Deep in white ashes | N |
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Give to darkness and sleep | O |
O Sower O Seer | P |
Give me to the earth | Q |
With the seed I would enter | B |
Oh the growth through the silence | R |
From strength to new strength | S |
Then the strong bursting forth | T |
Against primal forces | U |
To laugh in the sunshine | V |
To gladden the world | W |
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II | A |
Who will bring the red fire | B |
Unto a new hearth | X |
Who will lay the wide stone | Y |
On the waste of the earth | Q |
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Who is fain to begin | Z |
To build day by day | A2 |
To raise up his house | B2 |
Of the moist yellow clay | A2 |
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There's clay for the making | M |
Moist in the pit | C2 |
There are horses to trample | D2 |
The rushes through it | C2 |
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Above where the wild duck | E2 |
Arise up and fly | A |
There one can build | F2 |
To the wind and the sky | A |
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There are boughs in the forest | G2 |
To pluck young and green | H2 |
O'er them thatch of the crop | I2 |
Shall be heavy and clean | H2 |
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I speak unto him | J2 |
Who in dead of the night | K2 |
Sees the red streaks | L2 |
In the ash deep and white | K2 |
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While around him he hears | M2 |
Men stir in their rest | L |
And the stir of the babe | N2 |
That is close to the breast | L |
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He shall arise | O2 |
He shall go forth alone | Y |
Lay stone on the earth | Q |
And bring fire to stone | Y |
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