Pen-y-gwrydd: To Tom Hughes, Esq., Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KKLL I| There is no inn in Snowdon which is not awful dear | A |
| Excepting Pen y gwrydd you can't pronounce it dear | A |
| Which standeth in the meeting of noble valleys three | B |
| One is the vale of Gwynant so well beloved by me | B |
| One goes to Capel Curig and I can't mind its name | C |
| And one it is Llanberris Pass which all men knows the same | C |
| Between which radiations vast mountains does arise | D |
| As full of tarns as sieves of holes in which big fish will rise | D |
| That is just one day in the year if you be there my boy | E |
| Just about ten o'clock at night and then I wish you joy | E |
| Now to this Pen y gwrydd inn I purposeth to write | F |
| Axing the post town out of Froude for I can't mind it quite | F |
| And to engage a room or two for let us say a week | G |
| For fear of gents and Manichees and reading parties meek | G |
| And there to live like fighting cocks at almost a bob a day | H |
| And arterwards toward the sea make tracks and cut away | H |
| All for to catch the salmon bold in Aberglaslyn pool | I |
| And work the flats in Traeth Mawr and will or I'm a fool | I |
| And that's my game which if you like respond to me by post | J |
| But I fear it will not last my son a thirteen days at most | J |
| Flies is no object I can tell some three or four will do | K |
| And John Jones Clerk he knows the rest and ties and sells 'em too | K |
| Besides of which I have no more to say leastwise just now | L |
| And so goes to my children's school and 'umbly makes my bow | L |
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| Eversley | I |
Charles Kingsley
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