The Hayswater Boat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEE FGFGHHBB EIEIJJKK LMLNOOGG PBPBGGPQ| A region desolate and wild | A |
| Black chafing water and afloat | B |
| And lonely as a truant child | A |
| In a waste wood a single boat | B |
| No mast no sails are set thereon | C |
| It moves but never moveth on | D |
| And welters like a human thing | E |
| Amid the wild waves weltering | E |
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| Behind a buried vale doth sleep | F |
| Far down the torrent cleaves its way | G |
| In front the dumb rock rises steep | F |
| A fretted wall of blue and grey | G |
| Of shooting cliff and crumbled stone | H |
| With many a wild weed overgrown | H |
| All else black water and afloat | B |
| One rood from shore that single boat | B |
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| Last night the wind was up and strong | E |
| The grey streak'd waters labour still | I |
| The strong blast brought a pigmy throng | E |
| From that mild hollow in the hill | I |
| From those twin brooks that beached strand | J |
| So featly strewn with drifted sand | J |
| From those weird domes of mounded green | K |
| That spot the solitary scene | K |
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| This boat they found against the shore | L |
| The glossy rushes nodded by | M |
| One rood from land they push'd no more | L |
| Then rested listening silently | N |
| The loud rains lash'd the mountain's crown | O |
| The grating shingle straggled down | O |
| All night they sate then stole away | G |
| And left it rocking in the bay | G |
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| Last night I look'd the sky was clear | P |
| The boat was old a batter'd boat | B |
| In sooth it seems a hundred year | P |
| Since that strange crew did ride afloat | B |
| The boat hath drifted in the bay | G |
| The oars have moulder'd as they lay | G |
| The rudder swings yet none doth steer | P |
| What living hand hath brought it here | Q |
Matthew Arnold
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