The Painted Cup Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHIJFKLMNOPQRAS EJTAAUVBWX| The fresh savannas of the Sangamon | A |
| Here rise in gentle swells and the long grass | B |
| Is mixed with rustling hazels Scarlet tufts | C |
| Are glowing in the green like flakes of fire | D |
| The wanderers of the prairie know them well | E |
| And call that brilliant flower the Painted Cup | F |
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| Now if thou art a poet tell me not | G |
| That these bright chalices were tinted thus | H |
| To hold the dew for fairies when they meet | I |
| On moonlight evenings in the hazel bowers | J |
| And dance till they are thirsty Call not up | F |
| Amid this fresh and virgin solitude | K |
| The faded fancies of an elder world | L |
| But leave these scarlet cups to spotted moths | M |
| Of June and glistening flies and humming birds | N |
| To drink from when on all these boundless lawns | O |
| The morning sun looks hot Or let the wind | P |
| O'erturn in sport their ruddy brims and pour | Q |
| A sudden shower upon the strawberry plant | R |
| To swell the reddening fruit that even now | A |
| Breathes a slight fragrance from the sunny slope | S |
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| But thou art of a gayer fancy Well | E |
| Let then the gentle Manitou of flowers | J |
| Lingering amid the bloomy waste he loves | T |
| Though all his swarthy worshippers are gone | A |
| Slender and small his rounded cheek all brown | A |
| And ruddy with the sunshine let him come | U |
| On summer mornings when the blossoms wake | V |
| And part with little hands the spiky grass | B |
| And touching with his cherry lips the edge | W |
| Of these bright beakers drain the gathered dew | X |
William Cullen Bryant
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