Boaz Asleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAA CADE FAAG HIJK LMNO AFPA| Boaz overcome with weariness by torchlight | A |
| made his pallet on the threshing floor | B |
| where all day he had worked and now he slept | A |
| among the bushels of threshed wheat | A |
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| The old man owned wheatfields and barley | C |
| and though he was rich he was still fair minded | A |
| No filth soured the sweetness of his well | D |
| No hot iron of torture whitened in his forge | E |
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| His beard was silver as a brook in April | F |
| He bound sheaves without the strain of hate | A |
| or envy He saw gleaners pass and said | A |
| Let handfuls of the fat ears fall to them | G |
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| The man's mind clear of untoward feeling | H |
| clothed itself in candor He wore clean robes | I |
| His heaped granaries spilled over always | J |
| toward the poor no less than public fountains | K |
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| Boaz did well by his workers and by kinsmen | L |
| He was generous and moderate Women held him | M |
| worthier than younger men for youth is handsome | N |
| but to him in his old age came greatness | O |
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| An old man nearing his first source may find | A |
| the timelessness beyond times of trouble | F |
| And though fire burned in young men's eyes | P |
| to Ruth the eyes of Boaz shone clear light | A |
Victor Marie Hugo
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