The Ploughboy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH GJAJ KCHC LBDB DMNM OBDB HPIP| I wonder what he is thinking | A |
| In the ploughing field all day | B |
| He watches the heads of his oxen | C |
| And never looks this way | B |
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| And the furrows grow longer and longer | D |
| Around the base of the hill | E |
| And the valley is bright with the sunset | F |
| Yet he ploughs and whistles still | E |
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| I am tired of counting the ridges | G |
| Where the oxen come and go | H |
| And of thinking of all the blossoms | I |
| That are trampled down below | H |
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| I wonder if ever he guesses | G |
| That under the ragged brim | J |
| Of his torn straw hat I am peeping | A |
| To steal a look at him | J |
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| The spire of the church and the windows | K |
| Are all ablaze in the sun | C |
| He has left the plough in the furrow | H |
| His summer day's work is done | C |
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| And I hear him carolling softly | L |
| A sweet and simple lay | B |
| That we often have sung together | D |
| While he turns the oxen away | B |
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| The buttercups in the pasture | D |
| Twinkle and gleam like stars | M |
| He has gathered a golden handful | N |
| A leaning over the bars | M |
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| He has shaken the curls from his forehead | O |
| And is looking up this way | B |
| O where is my sun bonnet mother | D |
| He was thinking of me all day | B |
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| And I'm going down to the meadow | H |
| For I know he is waiting there | P |
| To wreathe the sunshiny blossoms | I |
| In the curls of my yellow hair | P |
Kate Seymour Maclean
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