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The Death Of The Hired Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Mary sat musing on the lamp flame at the table	A
Waiting for Warren When she heard his step	B
She ran on tip toe down the darkened passage	C
To meet him in the doorway with the news	D
And put him on his guard Silas is back	E
She pushed him outward with her through the door	F
And shut it after her Be kind she said	G
She took the market things from Warren's arms	H
And set them on the porch then drew him down	I
To sit beside her on the wooden steps	J
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When was I ever anything but kind to him	K
But I'll not have the fellow back he said	G
I told him so last haying didn't I	L
'If he left then ' I said 'that ended it '	-
What good is he Who else will harbour him	K
At his age for the little he can do	M
What help he is there's no depending on	N
Off he goes always when I need him most	O
'He thinks he ought to earn a little pay	P
Enough at least to buy tobacco with	Q
So he won't have to beg and be beholden '	-
'All right ' I say 'I can't afford to pay	P
Any fixed wages though I wish I could '	-
'Someone else can ' 'Then someone else will have to '	-
I shouldn't mind his bettering himself	R
If that was what it was You can be certain	S
When he begins like that there's someone at him	K
Trying to coax him off with pocket money	T
In haying time when any help is scarce	U
In winter he comes back to us I'm done	S
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Sh not so loud he'll hear you Mary said	G
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I want him to he'll have to soon or late	V
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He's worn out He's asleep beside the stove	W
When I came up from Rowe's I found him here	X
Huddled against the barn door fast asleep	Y
A miserable sight and frightening too	M
You needn't smile I didn't recognise him	K
I wasn't looking for him and he's changed	Z
Wait till you see	T
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Where did you say he'd been	A2
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He didn't say I dragged him to the house	B2
And gave him tea and tried to make him smoke	C2
I tried to make him talk about his travels	D2
Nothing would do he just kept nodding off	E2
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What did he say Did he say anything	F2
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But little	A
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Anything Mary confess	G2
He said he'd come to ditch the meadow for me	T
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Warren	S
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But did he I just want to know	H2
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Of course he did What would you have him say	P
Surely you wouldn't grudge the poor old man	I2
Some humble way to save his self respect	J2
He added if you really care to know	H2
He meant to clear the upper pasture too	M
That sounds like something you have heard before	F
Warren I wish you could have heard the way	P
He jumbled everything I stopped to look	K2
Two or three times he made me feel so queer	L2
To see if he was talking in his sleep	Y
He ran on Harold Wilson you remember	M2
The boy you had in haying four years since	N2
He's finished school and teaching in his college	O2
Silas declares you'll have to get him back	E
He says they two will make a team for work	P2
Between them they will lay this farm as smooth	Q2
The way he mixed that in with other things	R2
He thinks young Wilson a likely lad though daft	S2
On education you know how they fought	T2
All through July under the blazing sun	S
Silas up on the cart to build the load	U2
Harold along beside to pitch it on	N
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Yes I took care to keep well out of earshot	V2
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Well those days trouble Silas like a dream	W2
You wouldn't think they would How some things linger	M2
Harold's young college boy's assurance piqued him	K
After so many years he still keeps finding	F2
Good arguments he sees he might have used	X2
I sympathise I know just how it feels	Y2
To think of the right thing to say too late	V
Harold's associated in his mind with Latin	S
He asked me what I thought of Harold's saying	F2
He studied Latin like the violin	A2
Because he liked it that an argument	Z2
He said he couldn't make the boy believe	A3
He could find water with a hazel prong	B3
Which showed how much good school had ever done him	K
He wanted to go over that But most of all	C3
He thinks if he could have another chance	D3
To teach him how to build a load of hay	P
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I know that's Silas' one accomplishment	Z2
He bundles every forkful in its place	E3
And tags and numbers it for future reference	F3
So he can find and easily dislodge it	G3
In the unloading Silas does that well	H3
He takes it out in bunches like big birds' nests	I3
You never see him standing on the hay	P
He's trying to lift straining to lift himself	R
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He thinks if he could teach him that he'd be	T
Some good perhaps to someone in the world	J3
He hates to see a boy the fool of books	K3
Poor Silas so concerned for other folk	C2
And nothing to look backward to with pride	L3
And nothing to look forward to with hope	M3
So now and never any different	Z2
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Part of a moon was falling down the west	N3
Dragging the whole sky with it to the hills	O3
Its light poured softly in her lap She saw	P3
And spread her apron to it She put out her hand	Q3
Among the harp like morning glory strings	R2
Taut with the dew from garden bed to eaves	R3
As if she played unheard the tenderness	S3
That wrought on him beside her in the night	T3
Warren she said he has come home to die	L
You needn't be afraid he'll leave you this time	U3
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Home he mocked gently	T
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Yes what else but home	V3
It all depends on what you mean by home	V3
Of course he's nothing to us any more	F
Than was the hound that came a stranger to us	S3
Out of the woods worn out upon the trail	W3
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Home is the place where when you have to go there	X3
They have to take you in	A2
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I should have called it	G3
Something you somehow haven't to deserve	Y3
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Warren leaned out and took a step or two	M
Picked up a little stick and brought it back	E
And broke it in his hand and tossed it by	L
Silas has better claim on us you think	Z3
Than on his brother Thirteen little miles	A4
As the road winds would bring him to his door	F
Silas has walked that far no doubt to day	P
Why didn't he go there His brother's rich	B4
A somebody director in the bank	C4
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He never told us that	D4
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We know it though	H2
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I think his brother ought to help of course	E4
I'll see to that if there is need He ought of right	T3
To take him in and might be willing to	M
He may be better than appearances	F4
But have some pity on Silas Do you think	Z3
If he'd had any pride in claiming kin	A2
Or anything he looked for from his brother	M2
He'd keep so still about him all this time	U3
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I wonder what's between them	G4
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I can tell you	M
Silas is what he is we wouldn't mind him	K
But just the kind that kinsfolk can't abide	L3
He never did a thing so very bad	H4
He don't know why he isn't quite as good	I4
As anyone He won't be made ashamed	J4
To please his brother worthless though he is	K4
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I can't think Si ever hurt anyone	S
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No but he hurt my heart the way he lay	P
And rolled his old head on that sharp edged chair back	E
He wouldn't let me put him on the lounge	L4
You must go in and see what you can do	M
I made the bed up for him there to night	T3
You'll be surprised at him how much he's broken	S
His working days are done I'm sure of it	G3
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I'd not be in a hurry to say that	D4
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I haven't been Go look see for yourself	R
But Warren please remember how it is	K4
He's come to help you ditch the meadow	H2
He has a plan You mustn't laugh at him	K
He may not speak of it and then he may	P
I'll sit and see if that small sailing cloud	M4
Will hit or miss the moon	N4
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It hit the moon	N4
Then there were three there making a dim row	H2
The moon the little silver cloud and she	T
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Warren returned too soon it seemed to her	M2
Slipped to her side caught up her hand and waited	O4
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Warren she questioned	P4
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Dead was all he answered	Q4