The Schoolmaster Abroad With His Son Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBAB DEDEDE FGFGFG AHAHAH IEJEJE KLKLKL MNMNMN OPMPQPO what harper could worthily harp it | A |
Mine Edward this wide stretching wold | B |
Look out wold with its wonderful carpet | C |
Of emerald purple and gold | B |
Look well at it also look sharp it | A |
Is getting so cold | B |
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The purple is heather erica | D |
The yellow gorse call'd sometimes whin | E |
Cruel boys on its prickles might spike a | D |
Green beetle as if on a pin | E |
You may roll in it if you would like a | D |
Few holes in your skin | E |
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You wouldn't Then think of how kind you | F |
Should be to the insects who crave | G |
Your compassion and then look behind you | F |
At you barley ears Don't they look brave | G |
As they undulate undulate mind you | F |
From unda a wave | G |
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The noise of those sheep bells how faint it | A |
Sounds here on account of our height | H |
And this hillock itself who could paint it | A |
With its changes of shadow and light | H |
Is it not never Eddy say ain't it | A |
A marvellous sight | H |
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Then yon desolate eerie morasses | I |
The haunts of the snipe and the hern | E |
I shall question the two upper classes | J |
On aquatiles when we return | E |
Why I see on them absolute masses | J |
Of filix or fern | E |
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How it interests e'en a beginner | K |
Or tiro like dear little Ned | L |
Is he listening As I am a sinner | K |
He's asleep he is wagging his head | L |
Wake up I'll go home to my dinner | K |
And you to your bed | L |
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The boundless ineffable prairie | M |
The splendour of mountain and lake | N |
With their hues that seem ever to vary | M |
The mighty pine forests which shake | N |
In the wind and in which the unwary | M |
May tread on a snake | N |
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And this wold with its heathery garment | O |
Are themes undeniably great | P |
But although there is not any harm in't | M |
It's perhaps little good to dilate | P |
On their charms to a dull little varmint | Q |
Of seven or eight | P |
Charles Stuart Calverley
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