The Exchange Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNONPQRS BTUVNWXNXPYUYZNNNYA2 B2NC2YYZD2B2| Between Wytheville Virginia | A |
| and the North Carolina line | B |
| he meets a wagon headed | C |
| where he's been seated beside | D |
| her parents a dark eyed girl | E |
| who grips the reins in her fist | F |
| no more than sixteen he's guess | G |
| as they come closer and she | H |
| doesn't look away or blush | I |
| but allows his eyes to hold | J |
| hers that moment their lives pass | K |
| He rides into Boone at dusk | L |
| stops at an inn where he buys | M |
| his supper a sleepless night | N |
| thinking of fallow fields still | O |
| miles away the girl he might | N |
| not find the like of again | P |
| When dawn breaks he mounts his roan | Q |
| then backtracks searches three days | R |
| hamlets and farms any smoke | S |
| rising above the tree line | B |
| before he heads south toward home | T |
| the French Broad's valley where spring | U |
| unclinches the dogwood buds | V |
| as he plants the bottomland | N |
| come night by candlelight builds | W |
| a butter churn and cradle | X |
| cherry headboard for the bed | N |
| forges a double eagle | X |
| into a wedding ring and then | P |
| back to Virginia and spends | Y |
| five weeks riding and asking | U |
| from Elk Creek to Damascas | Y |
| before he finds the wagon | Z |
| tethered to the hitching post | N |
| of a crossroads store inside | N |
| the girl who smiles as if she'd | N |
| known all along his gray eyes | Y |
| would search until they found her | A2 |
| She asks one question his name | B2 |
| as her eyes study the gold | N |
| smoldering there between them | C2 |
| the offered palm she lightens | Y |
| slips the ring on herself so | Y |
| he knows right then the woman | Z |
| she will be bold enough match | D2 |
| for a man rash as his name | B2 |
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