The Ride Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGGCCHHIJKK LFMM| Lately an equipage I overtook | A |
| And helped to lift it o'er a narrow brook | A |
| No horse it had except one boy who drew | B |
| His sister out in it the fields to view | B |
| O happy town bred girl in fine chaise going | C |
| For the first time to see the green grass growing | C |
| This was the end and purport of the ride | D |
| I learned as walking slowly by their side | D |
| I heard their conversation Often she | E |
| 'Brother is this the country that I see ' | F |
| The bricks were smoking and the ground was broke | G |
| There were no signs of verdure when she spoke | G |
| He as the well informed delight in chiding | C |
| The ignorant these questions still deriding | C |
| To his good judgment modestly she yields | H |
| Till brick kilns past they reached the open fields | H |
| Then as with rapturous wonder round she gazes | I |
| On the green grass the buttercups and daisies | J |
| 'This is the country sure enough ' she cries | K |
| 'Is't not a charming place ' The boy replies | K |
| 'We'll go no further ' 'No ' says she 'no need | L |
| 'No finer place than this can be indeed ' | F |
| I left them gathering flowers the happiest pair | M |
| That ever London sent to breathe the fine fresh air | M |
Charles Lamb
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