The Reapers' Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDD EFGFHHDD IJIJKKDD| The harvest is nodding on valley and plain | A |
| To the scythe and the sickle its treasures must yield | B |
| Through sunshine and shower we have tended the grain | A |
| 'Tis ripe to our hand to the field to the field | B |
| If the sun on our labours too warmly should smile | C |
| Why a horn of good ale shall the long hours beguile | C |
| Then a largess a largess kind stranger we pray | D |
| We have toiled through the heat of the long summer day | D |
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| With his garland of poppies red August is here | E |
| And the forest is losing its first tender green | F |
| Pale Autumn will reap the last fruits of the year | G |
| And Winter's white mantle will cover the scene | F |
| To the field to the field whilst the Summer is ours | H |
| We will reap her ripe corn we will cull her bright flowers | H |
| Then a largess a largess kind stranger we pray | D |
| For your sake we have toiled through the long summer day | D |
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| Ere the first blush of morning is red in the skies | I |
| Ere the lark plumes his wing or the dew drops are dry | J |
| Ere the sun walks abroad must the harvestman rise | I |
| With stout heart unwearied the sickle to ply | J |
| He exults in his strength when the ale horn is crown'd | K |
| And the reapers' glad shouts swell the echoes around | K |
| Then a largess a largess kind stranger we pray | D |
| For your sake we have toiled through the long summer day | D |
Susanna Moodie
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