The Piper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHIH IAIACFCF| The dews were on the hedges | A |
| The mist was on the mead | B |
| When down among the sedges | A |
| I wrought my pipe of reed | B |
| I blew my pipe with power | C |
| Men only cursed the sound | D |
| That woke them when the hour | C |
| Brought back their labor s round | D |
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| The scythe was in the barley | E |
| The sickle in the wheat | F |
| The pipe I made so early | E |
| Had lost its tones so sweet | F |
| And weary man and maiden | G |
| Upon the glowing soil | H |
| My reed pipe fell upbraiding | I |
| That lightened not their toil | H |
| - | |
| The men had left their mowing | I |
| The maids to bind the sheaves | A |
| I took me for my blowing | I |
| A wheatstraw stripped of leaves | A |
| And cares all ceased to cumber | C |
| No voice was now upraised | F |
| I piped them all to slumber | C |
| And in their dreams was praised | F |
Francis William Bourdillon
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