The Cotswold Farmers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB CDCDCD EFEFEF GFGFGF| Sometimes the ghosts forgotten go | A |
| Along the hill top way | B |
| And with long scythes of silver mow | A |
| Meadows of moonlit hay | B |
| Until the cocks of Cotswold crow | A |
| The coming of the day | B |
| - | |
| There's Tony Turkletob who died | C |
| When he could drink no more | D |
| And Uncle Heritage the pride | C |
| Of eighteen twenty four | D |
| And Ebenezer Barleytide | C |
| And others half a score | D |
| - | |
| They fold in phantom pens and plough | E |
| Furrows without a share | F |
| And one will milk a faery cow | E |
| And one will stare and stare | F |
| And whistle ghostly tunes that now | E |
| Are not sung anywhere | F |
| - | |
| The moon goes down on Oakridge lea | G |
| The other world's astir | F |
| The Cotswold Farmers silently | G |
| Go back to sepulchre | F |
| The sleeping watchdogs wake and see | G |
| No ghostly harvester | F |
John Drinkwater
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