Nicholas Nye Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEAE BFGFFEF FHBHIEJE FBKBLEME NOFOFEFE| Thistle and darnell and dock grew there | A |
| And a bush in the corner of may | B |
| On the orchard wall I used to sprawl | C |
| In the blazing heat of the day | B |
| - | |
| Half asleep and half awake | D |
| While the birds went twittering by | E |
| And nobody there my lone to share | A |
| But Nicholas Nye | E |
| - | |
| Nicholas Nye was lean and gray | B |
| Lame of leg and old | F |
| More than a score of donkey's years | G |
| He had been since he was foaled | F |
| He munched the thistles purple and spiked | F |
| Would sometimes stoop and sigh | E |
| And turn his head as if he'd said | F |
| 'Poor Nicholas Nye ' | - |
| - | |
| Alone with his shadow he'd drowse in the meadow | F |
| Lazily swinging his tail | H |
| At break of day he used to bray | B |
| Not much too hearty and hale | H |
| But a wonderful gumption was under his skin | I |
| And a clean calm light in his eye | E |
| And once in a while he'd smile | J |
| Would Nicholas Nye | E |
| - | |
| Seem to be smiling at me he would | F |
| From his bush in the corner of may | B |
| Bony and ownerless widowed and worn | K |
| Knobble kneed lonely and gray | B |
| And over the grass would seem to pass | L |
| 'Neath the deep dark blue of the sky | E |
| Something much better than words between me | M |
| And Nicholas Nye | E |
| - | |
| But dusk would come in the apple boughs | N |
| The green of the glow worm shine | O |
| The birds in nest would crouch to rest | F |
| And home I'd trudge to mine | O |
| And there in the moonlight dark with dew | F |
| Asking not wherefore nor why | E |
| Would brood like a ghost and as still as a post | F |
| Old Nicholas Nye | E |
Walter De La Mare
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