Sunshine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDED CFGF HIJI FKLK FMNM OGPG QFQF RIGI FKFKS| For a Very Little Girl Not a Year Old | A |
| Catharine Frazee Wakefield | B |
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| The sun gives not directly | C |
| The coal the diamond crown | D |
| Not in a special basket | E |
| Are these from Heaven let down | D |
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| The sun gives not directly | C |
| The plough man's iron friend | F |
| Not by a path or stairway | G |
| Do tools from Heaven descend | F |
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| Yet sunshine fashions all things | H |
| That cut or burn or fly | I |
| And corn that seems upon the earth | J |
| Is made in the hot sky | I |
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| The gravel of the roadbed | F |
| The metal of the gun | K |
| The engine of the airship | L |
| Trace somehow from the sun | K |
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| And so your soul my lady | F |
| Mere sunshine nothing more | M |
| Prepares me the contraptions | N |
| I work with or adore | M |
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| Within me cornfields rustle | O |
| Niagaras roar their way | G |
| Vast thunderstorms and rainbows | P |
| Are in my thought to day | G |
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| Ten thousand anvils sound there | Q |
| By forges flaming white | F |
| And many books I read there | Q |
| And many books I write | F |
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| And freedom's bells are ringing | R |
| And bird choirs chant and fly | I |
| The whole world works in me to day | G |
| And all the shining sky | I |
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| Because of one small lady | F |
| Whose smile is my chief sun | K |
| She gives not any gift to me | F |
| Yet all gifts giving one | K |
| Amen | S |
Vachel Lindsay
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