Fawn's Foster-mother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCCEFGHIJKGLMNOPQ KC| The old woman sits on a bench before the door and quarrels | A |
| With her meagre pale demoralized daughter | B |
| Once when I passed I found her alone laughing in the sun | C |
| And saying that when she was first married | D |
| She lived in the old farmhouse up Garapatas Canyon | C |
| It is empty now the roof has fallen | C |
| But the log walls hang on the stone foundation the redwoods | E |
| Have all been cut down the oaks are standing | F |
| The place is now more solitary than ever before | G |
| 'When I was nursing my second baby | H |
| My husband found a day old fawn hid in a fern brake | I |
| And brought it I put its mouth to the breast | J |
| Rather than let it starve I had milk enough for three babies | K |
| Hey how it sucked the little nuzzler | G |
| Digging its little hoofs like quills into my stomach | L |
| I had more joy from that than from the others ' | M |
| Her face is deformed with age furrowed like a bad road | N |
| With market wagons mean cares and decay | O |
| She is thrown up to the surface of things a cell of dry skin | P |
| Soon to be shed from the earth's old eye brows | Q |
| I see that once in her spring she lived in the streaming arteries | K |
| The stir of the world the music of the mountain | C |
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