To Ellen At The South Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC ADAD EDED FGFF HDHD IEIE EFEF JDJD KAL| The green grass is bowing | A |
| The morning wind is in it | B |
| 'T is a tune worth thy knowing | A |
| Though it change every minute | C |
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| 'T is a tune of the Spring | A |
| Every year plays it over | D |
| To the robin on the wing | A |
| And 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 sect 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 dressed for thee the ground | F |
| Nor yet thou appearest | F |
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| 'O hasten ' 't is 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 poor 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 that we perfume | L |
| Sings a tune that's worth the knowing ' | - |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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