Fragments Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGG BBHHIIJJDDFFKKFFDD DDBBLBBFDD BBDDMM BBFFNNOOBBPPQR SSMMBBDDTTMFUUFFTTDD VV WXMMTTTTTYYTZ MTBB TTMTA2A2 MMDDTTTTTTAbout my fields in the broad sun | A |
And blaze of noon there goeth one | A |
Barefoot and robed in blue to scan | B |
With the hard eye of the husbandman | B |
My harvests and my cattle Her | C |
When even puts the birds astir | C |
And day has set in the great woods | D |
We seek among her garden roods | D |
With bells and cries in vain the while | E |
Lamps plate and the decanter smile | E |
On the forgotten board But she | F |
Deaf blind and prone on face and knee | F |
Forgets time family and feast | G |
And digs like a demented beast | G |
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Tall as a guardsman pale as the east at dawn | B |
Who strides in strange apparel on the lawn | B |
Rails for his breakfast routs his vassals out | H |
Like boys escaped from school with song and shout | H |
Kind and unkind his Maker's final freak | I |
Part we deride the child part dread the antique | I |
See where his gang like frogs among the dew | J |
Crouch at their duty an unquiet crew | J |
Adjust their staring kilts and their swift eyes | D |
Turn still to him who sits to supervise | D |
He in the midst perched on a fallen tree | F |
Eyes them at labour and guitar on knee | F |
Now ministers alarm now scatters joy | K |
Now twangs a halting chord now tweaks a boy | K |
Thorough in all my resolute vizier | F |
Plays both the despot and the volunteer | F |
Exacts with fines obedience to my laws | D |
And for his music too exacts applause | D |
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The Adorner of the uncomely those | D |
Amidst whose tall battalions goes | D |
Her pretty person out and in | B |
All day with an endearing din | B |
Of censure and encouragement | L |
And when all else is tried in vain | B |
See her sit down and weep again | B |
She weeps to conquer | F |
She varies on her grenadiers | D |
From satire up to girlish tears | D |
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Or rather to behold her when | B |
She plies for me the unresting pen | B |
And when the loud assault of squalls | D |
Resounds upon the roof and walls | D |
And the low thunder growls and I | M |
Raise my dictating voice on high | M |
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What glory for a boy of ten | B |
Who now must three gigantic men | B |
And two enormous dapple grey | F |
New Zealand pack horses array | F |
And lead and wisely resolute | N |
Our day long business execute | N |
In the far shore side town His soul | O |
Glows in his bosom like a coal | O |
His innocent eyes glitter again | B |
And his hand trembles on the rein | B |
Once he reviews his whole command | P |
And chivalrously planting hand | P |
On hip a borrowed attitude | Q |
Rides off downhill into the wood | R |
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I meanwhile in the populous house apart | S |
Sit snugly chambered and my silent art | S |
Uninterrupted unremitting ply | M |
Before the dawn by morning lamplight by | M |
The glow of smelting noon and when the sun | B |
Dips past my westering hill and day is done | B |
So bending still over my trade of words | D |
I hear the morning and the evening birds | D |
The morning and the evening stars behold | T |
So there apart I sit as once of old | T |
Napier in wizard Merchiston and my | M |
Brown innocent aides in home and husbandry | F |
Wonder askance What ails the boss they ask | U |
Him richest of the rich an endless task | U |
Before the earliest birds or servants stir | F |
Calls and detains him daylong prisoner | F |
He whose innumerable dollars hewed | T |
This cleft in the boar and devil haunted wood | T |
And bade therein from sun to seas and skies | D |
His many windowed painted palace rise | D |
Red roofed blue walled a rainbow on the hill | V |
A wonder in the forest glade he still | V |
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Unthinkable Aladdin dawn and dark | W |
Scribbles and scribbles like a German clerk | X |
We see the fact but tell O tell us why | M |
My reverend washman and wise butler cry | M |
Meanwhile at times the manifold | T |
Imperishable perfumes of the past | T |
And coloured pictures rise on me thick and fast | T |
And I remember the white rime the loud | T |
Lamplitten city shops and the changing crowd | T |
And I remember home and the old time | Y |
The winding river the white moving rhyme | Y |
The autumn robin by the river side | T |
That pipes in the grey eve | Z |
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The old lady so they say but I | M |
Admire your young vitality | T |
Still brisk of foot still busy and keen | B |
In and about and up and down | B |
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I hear you pass with bustling feet | T |
The long verandahs round and beat | T |
Your bell and Lotu Lotu cry | M |
Thus calling our queer company | T |
In morning or in evening dim | A2 |
To prayers and the oft mangled hymn | A2 |
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All day you watch across the sky | M |
The silent shining cloudlands ply | M |
That huge as countries swift as birds | D |
Beshade the isles by halves and thirds | D |
Till each with battlemented crest | T |
Stands anchored in the ensanguined west | T |
An Alp enchanted All the day | T |
You hear the exuberant wind at play | T |
In vast unbroken voice uplift | T |
In roaring tree round whistling clift | T |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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