Behind The Hill Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGG| Behind the hill I met a man in green | A |
| Who asked me if my mother had gone out | B |
| I said she had He asked me had I seen | A |
| His castle where the people sing and shout | B |
| From dawn to dark and told me that he had | C |
| A crock of gold inside a hollow tree | D |
| And I could have it I wanted money bad | C |
| To buy a sword with and I thought that he | D |
| Would keep his solemn word so off we went | E |
| He said he had a pound hid in the crock | F |
| And owned the castle too and paid no rent | E |
| To any one and that you had to knock | F |
| Five hundred times I asked 'Who reckoned up ' | G |
| And he said 'You insulting little pup ' | G |
James Stephens
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