Our Hills Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBB CCDDD EEFFF GGHHH AAIII JJGGGG| Dear Mother Earth | A |
| Of Titan birth | A |
| Yon hills are your large breasts and often I | B |
| Have climbed to their top nipples fain and dry | B |
| To drink my mother's milk so near the sky | B |
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| O ye hill stains | C |
| Red for all rains | C |
| The blood that made you has all bled for us | D |
| The hearts that paid you are all dead for us | D |
| The trees that shade you groan with lead for us | D |
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| And O hill sides | E |
| Like giants' brides | E |
| Ye sleep in ravine rumpled draperies | F |
| And weep your springs in tearful memories | F |
| Of days that stained your robes with stains like these | F |
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| Sleep on ye hills | G |
| Weep on ye rills | G |
| The stainers have decreed the stains shall stay | H |
| They chain the hands might wash the stains away | H |
| They wait with cold hearts till we rue the day | H |
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| O Mother Earth | A |
| Of Titan birth | A |
| Thy mother's milk is curdled with aloe | I |
| Like hills Men lift calm heads through any woe | I |
| And weep but bow not an inch for any foe | I |
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| Thou Sorrow height | J |
| We climb by night | J |
| Thou hast no hell deep chasm save Disgrace | G |
| To stoop will fling us down its fouled space | G |
| Stand proud The Dawn will meet us face to face | G |
| For down steep hills the Dawn loves best to race | G |
Sidney Lanier
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