The Brook Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJK LLMMNNOO| Seated once by a brook watching a child | A |
| Chiefly that paddled I was thus beguiled | A |
| Mellow the blackbird sang and sharp the thrush | B |
| Not far off in oak and hazel brush | B |
| Unseen There was a scent like honeycomb | C |
| From mugwort dull And down upon the dome | C |
| Of the stone the cart horse kicks against so oft | D |
| A butterfly alighted From aloft | D |
| He took the heat of the sun and from below | E |
| On the hot stone he perched contented so | E |
| As if never a cart would pass again | F |
| That way as if I were the last of men | F |
| And he the first of insects to have earth | G |
| And sun together and to know their worth | G |
| I was divided between him and the gleam | H |
| The motion and the voices of the stream | H |
| The waters running frizzled over gravel | I |
| That never vanish and for ever travel | I |
| A grey flycatcher silent on a fence | J |
| And I sat as if we had been there since | K |
| The horseman and the horse lying beneath | L |
| The fir tree covered barrow on the heath | L |
| The horseman and the horse with silver shoes | M |
| Galloped the downs last All that I could lose | M |
| I lost And then the child's voice raised the dead | N |
| 'No one's been here before' was what she said | N |
| And what I felt yet never should have found | O |
| A word for while I gathered sight and sound | O |
Edward Thomas
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