To Ellen, At The South Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC ADAD EDED FGFF HDHD IEIE EFEF JDJD KALAThe green grass is growing | A |
The morning wind is in it | B |
'Tis a tune worth the knowing | A |
Though it change every minute | C |
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'Tis a tune of the spring | A |
Every year plays it over | D |
To the robin on the wing | A |
To the pausing lover | D |
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O'er ten thousand thousand acres | E |
Goes light the nimble zephyr | D |
The flowers tiny feet of shakers | E |
Worship him ever | D |
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Hark to the winning sound | F |
They summon thee dearest | G |
Saying We have drest for thee the ground | F |
Nor yet thou appearest | F |
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O hasten 'tis our time | H |
Ere yet the red summer | D |
Scorch our delicate prime | H |
Loved of bee the tawny hummer | D |
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O pride of thy race | I |
Sad in sooth it were to ours | E |
If our brief tribe miss thy face | I |
We pour New England flowers | E |
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Fairest choose the fairest members | E |
Of our lithe society | F |
June's glories and September's | E |
Show our love and piety | F |
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Thou shalt command us all | J |
April's cowslip summer's clover | D |
To the gentian in the fall | J |
Blue eyed pet of blue eyed lover | D |
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O come then quickly come | K |
We are budding we are blowing | A |
And the wind which we perfume | L |
Sings a tune that's worth thy knowing | A |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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