Inversnaid Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEE FFGG HHII| This darksome burn horseback brown | A |
| His rollrock highroad roaring down | A |
| In coop and in comb the fleece of his foam | B |
| Flutes and low to the lake falls home | B |
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| A windpuff bonnet of f aacute wn fr oacute th | C |
| Turns and twindles over the broth | D |
| Of a pool so pitchblack f eacute ll fr oacute wning | E |
| It rounds and rounds Despair to drowning | E |
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| Degged with dew dappled with dew | F |
| Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through | F |
| Wiry heathpacks flitches of fern | G |
| And the beadbonny ash that sits over the burn | G |
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| What would the world be once bereft | H |
| Of wet and of wildness Let them be left | H |
| O let them be left wildness and wet | I |
| Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet | I |
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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