Earth's Children Cleave To Earth. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDDDDDECECFGFG| Earth's children cleave to Earth her frail | A |
| Decaying children dread decay | B |
| Yon wreath of mist that leaves the vale | A |
| And lessens in the morning ray | B |
| Look how by mountain rivulet | C |
| It lingers as it upward creeps | D |
| And clings to fern and copsewood set | C |
| Along the green and dewy steeps | D |
| Clings to the fragrant kalmia clings | D |
| To precipices fringed with grass | D |
| Dark maples where the wood thrush sings | D |
| And bowers of fragrant sassafras | D |
| Yet all in vain it passes still | E |
| From hold to hold it cannot stay | C |
| And in the very beams that fill | E |
| The world with glory wastes away | C |
| Till parting from the mountain's brow | F |
| It vanishes from human eye | G |
| And that which sprung of earth is now | F |
| A portion of the glorious sky | G |
William Cullen Bryant
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