Up'ards Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBC CCDDD EEFFD GGFFD HHIID JJKKD LLBBD MMNND OOKPD BBBD F B QQDDF RRSSF AATTF HHIIF UU F VVAAF AAFFF AADDF FFFFF| 'Twere getting dusk one winter's night | A |
| When up the clough there came in sight | A |
| A lad who carried through the snow | B |
| A banner with this 'ere motto | B |
| 'Uppards' | C |
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| His face was glum as he did pass | C |
| His eyes were shiny just like glass | C |
| And as he went upon his way | D |
| He nobbut this 'ere word did say | D |
| 'Uppards' | D |
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| And people sitting down to tea | E |
| They heard him plan as plain can be | E |
| They thowt 'twere final football score | F |
| As this 'ere word rang out once more | F |
| 'Uppards' | D |
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| A policeman on his lonely beat | G |
| He stopped the lad up t' end of t' street | G |
| He said Where't going wi' that theer | F |
| The lad just whispered in his ear | F |
| 'Uppards' | D |
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| Don't go down t' clough the policeman said | H |
| It's mucky road for thee to tread | H |
| Canal's at bottom deep and wide | I |
| That's not my road the lad replied | I |
| It's 'Uppards' | D |
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| A young lass stopped him further up | J |
| She said Come in wi' me and sup | J |
| He said I'm takin none o' yon | K |
| Besides I must be getting on | K |
| 'Uppards' | D |
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| Next day some lads had just begun | L |
| To tak' their whippets for a run | L |
| When dogs got scratching in the snow | B |
| And found flag with this 'ere motto | B |
| 'Uppards' | D |
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| That set them digging all around | M |
| And 'twasn't long before they found | M |
| A lad whose name they never learned | N |
| Whose face was white whose toes had turned | N |
| 'Uppards' | D |
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| 'Twas very plain for to behold | O |
| The lad had ta'en his death o' cold | O |
| He'd got his feet wet early on | K |
| And from his feet the cold had gone | P |
| 'Uppards' | D |
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| This story only goes to show | B |
| That when the fields is white wi' snow | B |
| It's inadvisable to go | B |
| 'Uppards' | D |
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| EXCELSIOR | F |
| by | - |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | B |
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| The shades of night were falling fast | Q |
| As through an Alpine village passed | Q |
| A youth who bore 'mid snow and ice | D |
| A banner with the strange device | D |
| Excelsior | F |
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| His brow was sad his eye beneath | R |
| Flashed like a faulchion from its sheath | R |
| And like a silver clarion rung | S |
| The accents of that unknown tongue | S |
| Excelsior | F |
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| In happy homes he saw the light | A |
| Of household fires gleam warm and bright | A |
| Above the spectral glaciers shone | T |
| And from his lips escaped a groan | T |
| Excelsior | F |
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| Try not the Pass the old man said | H |
| Dark lowers the tempest overhead | H |
| The roaring torrent is deep and wide | I |
| And loud that clarion voice replied | I |
| Excelsior | F |
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| O stay the maiden said and rest | U |
| Thy weary head upon this breast | U |
| A tear stood in his bright blue eye | - |
| But still he answered with a sigh | - |
| Excelsior | F |
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| Beware the pine tree's withered branch | V |
| Beware the awful avalanche | V |
| This was the peasant's last Good night | A |
| A voice replied far up the height | A |
| Excelsior | F |
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| At break of day as heavenward | A |
| The pious monks of Saint Bernard | A |
| Uttered the oft repeated prayer | F |
| A voice cried through the startled air | F |
| Excelsior | F |
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| A traveller by the faithful hound | A |
| Half buried in the snow was found | A |
| Still grasping in his hand of ice | D |
| That banner with the strange device | D |
| Excelsior | F |
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| There in the twilight cold and gray | F |
| Lifeless but beautiful he lay | F |
| And from the sky serene and far | F |
| A voice fell like a falling star | F |
| Excelsior | F |
Marriott Edgar
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