The Town Between The Hills Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBB EFFGHFIIJKKILMN AOOPALQQRBASBTUSUUUS SU SVKV UKUUSUUSUUUSSSU| The 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| He nodded his head | S |
| And made her a sign | V |
| To sit under the spray | K |
| Of a trailing vine | V |
| - | |
| 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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