The Wood-cutter's Night Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFH IJIJ KELE MNMN DODO PQPQ ABAB CDEDWelcome red and roundy sun | A |
Dropping lowly in the west | B |
Now my hard day's work is done | A |
I'm as happy as the best | B |
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Joyful are the thoughts of home | C |
Now I'm ready for my chair | D |
So till morrow morning's come | E |
Bill and mittens lie ye there | D |
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Though to leave your pretty song | F |
Little birds it gives me pain | G |
Yet to morrow is not long | F |
Then I'm with you all again | H |
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If I stop and stand about | I |
Well I know how things will be | J |
Judy will be looking out | I |
Every now and then for me | J |
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So fare ye well and hold your tongues | K |
Sing no more until I come | E |
They're not worthy of your songs | L |
That never care to drop a crumb | E |
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All day long I love the oaks | M |
But at nights yon little cot | N |
Where I see the chimney smokes | M |
Is by far the prettiest spot | N |
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Wife and children all are there | D |
To revive with pleasant looks | O |
Table ready set and chair | D |
Supper hanging on the hooks | O |
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Soon as ever I get in | P |
When my faggot down I fling | Q |
Little prattlers they begin | P |
Teasing me to talk and sing | Q |
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Welcome red and roundy sun | A |
Dropping lowly in the west | B |
Now my hard day's work is done | A |
I'm as happy as the best | B |
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Joyful are the thoughts of home | C |
Now I'm ready for my chair | D |
So till morrow morning's come | E |
Bill and mittens lie ye there | D |
John Clare
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