The Ploughman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCDEFF GBBGHHIIJJ KBBKLLMMNN NBBNOPQQRR SBBSTTMMUV ABBAWWDEMM| Tearing up the stubborn soil | A |
| Trudging drudging toiling moiling | B |
| Hands and feet and garments soiling | B |
| Who would grudge the ploughman's toil | A |
| Yet there's lustre in his eye | C |
| Borrowed from yon glowing sky | C |
| And there's meaning in his glances | D |
| That bespeak no dreamer's fancies | E |
| For his mind has precious lore | F |
| Gleaned from Nature's sacred store | F |
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| Toiling up yon weary hill | G |
| He has worked since early morning | B |
| Ease and rest and pleasure scorning | B |
| And he's at his labor still | G |
| Though the slanting western beam | H |
| Quivering on the glassy stream | H |
| And yon old elm's lengthened shadow | I |
| Flung athwart the verdant meadow | I |
| Tell that shadowy twilight grey | J |
| Cannot now be far away | J |
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| See he stops and wipes his brow | K |
| Marks the rapid sun's descending | B |
| Marks his shadow far extending | B |
| Deems it time to quit the plough | K |
| Weary man and weary steed | L |
| Welcome food and respite need | L |
| 'Tis the hour when bird and bee | M |
| Seek repose and why not he | M |
| Nature loves the twilight blest | N |
| Let the toil worn ploughman rest | N |
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| Ye who nursed upon the breast | N |
| Of ease and pleasure enervating | B |
| Ever new delights creating | B |
| Which not long retain their zest | N |
| Ere upon your taste they pall | O |
| What avail your pleasures all | P |
| In his hard but pleasant labor | Q |
| He your useful healthful neighbor | Q |
| Finds enjoyment real true | R |
| Vainly sought by such as you | R |
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| Nature's open volume lies | S |
| Richly tinted brightly beaming | B |
| With its varied lessons teeming | B |
| All outspread before his eyes | S |
| Dewy glades and opening flowers | T |
| Emerald meadows vernal bowers | T |
| Sun and shade and bird and bee | M |
| Fount and forest hill and lea | M |
| All things beautiful and fair | U |
| His benignant teachers are | V |
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| Tearing up the stubborn soil | A |
| Trudging drudging toiling moiling | B |
| Hands and feet and garments soiling | B |
| Who would grudge the ploughman's toil | A |
| Yet 'tis health and wealth to him | W |
| Strength of nerve and strength of limb | W |
| Light and fervor in his glances | D |
| Life and beauty in his fancies | E |
| Learned and happy brave and free | M |
| Who so proud and blest as he | M |
Pamela S. Vining, (j. C. Yule)
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