The Furrow And The Hearth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHI JKLMN OPQBRSTUVW ABXYQ ZA2B2A2 MC2D2C2 E2AF2A G2H2I2H2 J2K2L2K2 M2LN2L O2YQY| I | 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| Who is fain to begin | Z |
| To build day by day | A2 |
| To raise up his house | B2 |
| Of the moist yellow clay | A2 |
| - | |
| There's clay for the making | M |
| Moist in the pit | C2 |
| There are horses to trample | D2 |
| The rushes through it | C2 |
| - | |
| Above where the wild duck | E2 |
| Arise up and fly | A |
| There one can build | F2 |
| To the wind and the sky | A |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| I speak unto him | J2 |
| Who in dead of the night | K2 |
| Sees the red streaks | L2 |
| In the ash deep and white | K2 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| He shall arise | O2 |
| He shall go forth alone | Y |
| Lay stone on the earth | Q |
| And bring fire to stone | Y |
Padraic Colum
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