The Witch Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE AFFF GBHB IJHJ IKLK GCGC MHM IHNH FFHF IOHO| Weary went the old Witch | A |
| Weary of her pack | B |
| She sat her down by the churchyard wall | C |
| And jerked it off her back | B |
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| The cord brake yes the cord brake | D |
| Just where the dead did lie | E |
| And Charms and Spells and Sorceries | F |
| Spilled out beneath the sky | E |
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| Weary was the old Witch | A |
| She rested her old eyes | F |
| From the lantern fruited yew trees | F |
| And the scarlet of the skies | F |
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| And out the dead came stumbling | G |
| From every rift and crack | B |
| Silent as moss and plundered | H |
| The gaping pack | B |
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| They wish them three times over | I |
| Away they skip full soon | J |
| Bat and Mole and Leveret | H |
| Under the rising moon | J |
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| Owl and Newt and Nightjar | I |
| They take their shapes and creep | K |
| Silent as churchyard lichen | L |
| While she squats asleep | K |
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| All of these dead were stirring | G |
| Each unto each did call | C |
| 'A Witch a Witch is sleeping | G |
| Under the churchyard wall | C |
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| 'A Witch a Witch is sleeping ' | - |
| The shrillness ebbed away | M |
| And up the way worn moon clomb bright | H |
| Hard on the track of day | M |
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| She shone high wan and silvery | I |
| Day's colours paled and died | H |
| And save the mute and creeping worm | N |
| Nought else was there beside | H |
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| Names may be writ and mounds rise | F |
| Purporting Here be bones | F |
| But empty is that churchyard | H |
| Of all save stones | F |
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| Owl and Newt and Nightjar | I |
| Leveret Bat and Mole | O |
| Haunt and call in the twilight | H |
| Where she slept poor soul | O |
Walter De La Mare
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