The Proud Farmer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFGF HIJIKJLJ MNON PQRQ QSQS CTQTIn memory of E S Frazee Rush County Indiana | A |
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Into the acres of the newborn state | B |
He poured his strength and plowed his ancient name | C |
And when the traders followed him he stood | D |
Towering above their furtive souls and tame | C |
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That brow without a stain that fearless eye | E |
Oft left the passing stranger wondering | F |
To find such knighthood in the sprawling land | G |
To see a democrat well nigh a king | F |
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He lived with liberal hand with guests from far | H |
With talk and joke and fellowship to spare | I |
Watching the wide world's life from sun to sun | J |
Lining his walls with books from everywhere | I |
He read by night he built his world by day | K |
The farm and house of God to him were one | J |
For forty years he preached and plowed and wrought | L |
A statesman in the fields who bent to none | J |
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His plowmen neighbors were as lords to him | M |
His was an ironside democratic pride | N |
He served a rigid Christ but served him well | O |
And for a lifetime saved the countryside | N |
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Here lie the dead who gave the church their best | P |
Under his fiery preaching of the word | Q |
They sleep with him beneath the ragged grass | R |
The village withers by his voice unstirred | Q |
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And tho' his tribe be scattered to the wind | Q |
From the Atlantic to the China sea | S |
Yet do they think of that bright lamp he burned | Q |
Of family worth and proud integrity | S |
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And many a sturdy grandchild hears his name | C |
In reverence spoken till he feels akin | T |
To all the lion eyed who built the world | Q |
And lion dreams begin to burn within | T |
Vachel Lindsay
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