A Boy's Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCBB CDBB CCBB EEFF EEBB| Where the pools are bright and deep | A |
| Where the grey trout lies asleep | A |
| Up the river and over the lea | B |
| That's the way for Billy and me | B |
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| Where the blackbird sings the latest | C |
| Where the hawthorn blooms the sweetest | C |
| Where the nestlings chirp and flee | B |
| That's the way for Billy and me | B |
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| Where the mowers mow the cleanest | C |
| Where the hay lies thick and greenest | D |
| There to track the homeward bee | B |
| That's the way for Billy and me | B |
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| Where the hazel bank is steepest | C |
| Where the shadow falls the deepest | C |
| Where the clustering nuts fall free | B |
| That's the way for Billy and me | B |
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| Why the boys should drive away | E |
| Little sweet maidens from the play | E |
| Or love to banter and fight so well | F |
| That's the thing I never could tell | F |
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| But this I know I love to play | E |
| Through the meadow among the hay | E |
| Up the water and over the lea | B |
| That's the way for Billy and me | B |
James Hogg
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