The Town Between The Hills Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBB EFFGHFIIJKKILMN AOOPALQQRBASBTUSUUUS SU SVKV UKUUSUUSUUUSSSUThe further the little girl leaped and ran | A |
The further she longed to be | B |
The white white fields of jonquil flowers | C |
Danced up as high as her knee | B |
And flashed and sparkled before her eyes | D |
Until she could hardly see | B |
So into the wood went she | B |
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It was quiet in the wood | E |
It was solemn and grave | F |
A sound like a wave | F |
Sighed in the tree tops | G |
And then sighed no more | H |
But she was brave | F |
And the sky showed through | I |
A bird's egg blue | I |
And she saw | J |
A tiny path that was running away | K |
Over the hills to who can say | K |
She ran too | I |
But then the path broke | L |
Then the path ended | M |
And wouldn't be mended | N |
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A little old man | A |
Sat on the edge | O |
Hugging the hedge | O |
He had a fire | P |
And two eggs in a pan | A |
And a paper poke | L |
Of pepper and salt | Q |
So she came to a halt | Q |
To watch and admire | R |
Cunning and nimble was he | B |
May I help if I can little old man | A |
Bravo he said | S |
You may dine with me | B |
I've two old eggs | T |
From two white hens | U |
and a loaf from a kind ladie | S |
Some fresh nutmegs | U |
Some cutlet ends | U |
In pink and white paper frills | U |
And I've got | S |
A little hot pot | S |
From the town between the hills | U |
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He nodded his head | S |
And made her a sign | V |
To sit under the spray | K |
Of a trailing vine | V |
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But when the little girl joined her hands | U |
And said the grace she had learned to say | K |
The little old man gave two dreadful squeals | U |
And she just saw the flash of his smoking heels | U |
As he tumbled tumbled | S |
With his two old eggs | U |
From two white hens | U |
His loaf from a kind ladie | S |
The fresh nutmegs | U |
The cutlet ends | U |
In the pink and white paper frills | U |
And away rumbled | S |
The little hot pot | S |
So much too hot | S |
From the ton between the hills | U |
Katherine Mansfield
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Hazel Russell : This was a poem I learned at school in 1960 when I was 14 . It was a definite favourite.
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