A Farm House By The River Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBDB EFEFABAB GHGHIBIB JKLKMBMB EFEFNBOB| I know a little country place | A |
| Where still my heart doth linger | B |
| And o'er its fields is every grace | A |
| Lined out by memory's finger | B |
| Back from the lane where poplars grew | C |
| And aspens quake and quiver | B |
| There stands all bath'd in summer's glow | D |
| A farm house by the river | B |
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| Its eaves are touched with golden light | E |
| So sweetly softly shining | F |
| And morning glories full and bright | E |
| About the doors are twining | F |
| And there endowed with every grace | A |
| That nature's hand could giver her | B |
| There lived the angel of the place | A |
| In the farm house by the river | B |
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| Her eyes were blue her hair was gold | G |
| Her face was bright and sunny | H |
| The songs that from her bosom rolled | G |
| Were sweet as summer's honey | H |
| And I loved her well that maid divine | I |
| And I prayed the Gracious Giver | B |
| That I some day might call her mine | I |
| In the farm house by the river | B |
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| Twas not to be but God knows best | J |
| His will for aye be heeded | K |
| Perhaps amid the angels' bliss | L |
| My little love was needed | K |
| Her spirit from its thralldom torn | M |
| Went singing o'er the river | B |
| And that sweet life my heart shall mourn | M |
| Forever and forever | B |
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| She dies one morn at early light | E |
| When all the birds are singing | F |
| And Heaven itself in pure delight | E |
| Its bells of joy seemed ringing | F |
| They laid her dust where soon and late | N |
| The solemn grasses quiver | B |
| And left alone and desolate | O |
| The farm house by the river | B |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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