The Whipper-in Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCB DEFECE GHGHIH JKJKCK LMLMCM| My father was the whipper in | A |
| Is still if I'm not misled | B |
| And now I see where the hedge is thin | A |
| A little spot of red | B |
| Surely it is my father | C |
| Going to the kennel shed | B |
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| I cursed and fought my father aye | D |
| And sailed to a foreign land | E |
| And feeling sorry I'm back to stay | F |
| Please God as his helping hand | E |
| Surely it is my father | C |
| Near where the kennels stand | E |
| - | |
| True Whipper in he used to be | G |
| For twenty years or more | H |
| And you did go away to sea | G |
| As youths have done before | H |
| Yes oddly enough that red there | I |
| Is the very coat he wore | H |
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| But he he's dead was thrown somehow | J |
| And gave his back a crick | K |
| And though that is his coat 'tis now | J |
| The scarecrow of a rick | K |
| You'll see when you get nearer | C |
| 'Tis spread out on a stick | K |
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| You see when all had settled down | L |
| Your mother's things were sold | M |
| And she went back to her own town | L |
| And the coat ate out with mould | M |
| Is now used by the farmer | C |
| For scaring as 'tis old | M |
Thomas Hardy
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