From The Flats Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEE FFBBGGEE HHIIJJKK L| What heartache ne'er a hill | A |
| Inexorable vapid vague and chill | A |
| The drear sand levels drain my spirit low | B |
| With one poor word they tell me all they know | B |
| Whereat their stupid tongues to tease my pain | C |
| Do drawl it o'er again and o'er again | D |
| They hurt my heart with griefs I cannot name | E |
| Always the same the same | E |
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| Nature hath no surprise | F |
| No ambuscade of beauty 'gainst mine eyes | F |
| From brake or lurking dell or deep defile | B |
| No humors frolic forms this mile that mile | B |
| No rich reserves or happy valley hopes | G |
| Beyond the bend of roads the distant slopes | G |
| Her fancy fails her wild is all run tame | E |
| Ever the same the same | E |
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| Oh might I through these tears | H |
| But glimpse some hill my Georgia high uprears | H |
| Where white the quartz and pink the pebble shine | I |
| The hickory heavenward strives the muscadine | I |
| Swings o'er the slope the oak's far falling shade | J |
| Darkens the dogwood in the bottom glade | J |
| And down the hollow from a ferny nook | K |
| Bright leaps a living brook | K |
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| Tampa Florida | L |
Sidney Lanier
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