The Proud Farmer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFGF HIJIKJLJ MNON PQRQ QSQS CTQT

In memory of E S Frazee Rush County IndianaA
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Into the acres of the newborn stateB
He poured his strength and plowed his ancient nameC
And when the traders followed him he stoodD
Towering above their furtive souls and tameC
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That brow without a stain that fearless eyeE
Oft left the passing stranger wonderingF
To find such knighthood in the sprawling landG
To see a democrat well nigh a kingF
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He lived with liberal hand with guests from farH
With talk and joke and fellowship to spareI
Watching the wide world's life from sun to sunJ
Lining his walls with books from everywhereI
He read by night he built his world by dayK
The farm and house of God to him were oneJ
For forty years he preached and plowed and wroughtL
A statesman in the fields who bent to noneJ
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His plowmen neighbors were as lords to himM
His was an ironside democratic prideN
He served a rigid Christ but served him wellO
And for a lifetime saved the countrysideN
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Here lie the dead who gave the church their bestP
Under his fiery preaching of the wordQ
They sleep with him beneath the ragged grassR
The village withers by his voice unstirredQ
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And tho' his tribe be scattered to the windQ
From the Atlantic to the China seaS
Yet do they think of that bright lamp he burnedQ
Of family worth and proud integrityS
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And many a sturdy grandchild hears his nameC
In reverence spoken till he feels akinT
To all the lion eyed who built the worldQ
And lion dreams begin to burn withinT

Vachel Lindsay



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