The Traveller-heart Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CBDB CBEB BBBB CBFB GBHB CBIB FBJB| To a Man who maintained that the Mausoleum is the | A |
| Stateliest Possible Manner of Interment | B |
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| I would be one with the dark dark earth | C |
| Follow the plough with a yokel tread | B |
| I would be part of the Indian corn | D |
| Walking the rows with the plumes o'erhead | B |
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| I would be one with the lavish earth | C |
| Eating the bee stung apples red | B |
| Walking where lambs walk on the hills | E |
| By oak grove paths to the pools be led | B |
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| I would be one with the dark bright night | B |
| When sparkling skies and the lightning wed | B |
| Walking on with the vicious wind | B |
| By roads whence even the dogs have fled | B |
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| I would be one with the sacred earth | C |
| On to the end till I sleep with the dead | B |
| Terror shall put no spears through me | F |
| Peace shall jewel my shroud instead | B |
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| I shall be one with all pit black things | G |
| Finding their lowering threat unsaid | B |
| Stars for my pillow there in the gloom | H |
| Oak roots arching about my head | B |
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| Stars like daisies shall rise through the earth | C |
| Acorns fall round my breast that bled | B |
| Children shall weave there a flowery chain | I |
| Squirrels on acorn hearts be fed | B |
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| Fruit of the traveller heart of me | F |
| Fruit of my harvest songs long sped | B |
| Sweet with the life of my sunburned days | J |
| When the sheaves were ripe and the apples red | B |
Vachel Lindsay
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