A Railroad Eclogue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BC D ED F GH I IJ K G KL MNOPQORSCO OT U VWXOXOYIIXZIXA2OI B2 B2DC XX| Father What brought thee back lad | A |
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| Son Father the same feet | B |
| As took me brought me back I warrant ye | C |
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| Father Couldst thou not find the rail | D |
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| Son The deuce himself | E |
| Who can find most things could not find the rail | D |
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| Father Plain as a pike staff miles and miles it lies | F |
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| Son So they all told me Pike staffs in your day | G |
| Must have been hugely plainer than just now | H |
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| Father What didst thou ask for | I |
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| Son Ask for Tewkesbury | I |
| Thro Defford opposite to Breedon hill | J |
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| Father Right and they set ye wrong | K |
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| Son Me wrong not they | G |
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| The best among 'em should not set me wrong | K |
| Nor right nor anything I'd tell 'em that | L |
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| Father Herefordshire's short horns and shorter wits | M |
| Are known in every quarter of the land | N |
| Those blunt these blunter Well no help for it | O |
| Each might do harm if each had more of each | P |
| Yet even in Herefordshire there are some | Q |
| Not downright dolts before the cider's broacht | O |
| When all are much alike yet most could tell | R |
| A railroad from a parish or a pike | S |
| How thou couldst miss that railroad puzzles me | C |
| Seeing there lies none other round about | O |
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| Son I found the rails along the whole brook side | O |
| Left of that old stone bridge across yon Avon | T |
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| Father That is the place | U |
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| Son There was a house hard by | V |
| And past it ran a furnace upon wheels | W |
| Like a mad bull tail up in air and horns | X |
| So low ye might not see 'em On it bumpt | O |
| Roaring as strait as any arrow flits | X |
| As strait as fast too ay and faster went it | O |
| Arid could it keep its wind up and not crack | Y |
| Then woe betide the eggs at Tewkesbury | I |
| This market day and lambs and sheep a score | I |
| Of pigs might be made flitches in a trice | X |
| Before they well could knuckle | Z |
| Father Father | I |
| If they were ourn thou wouldst not chuckle so | X |
| And shake thy sides and wipe thy eyes and rub | A2 |
| Thy breeches knees like Sunday shoes at that rate | O |
| Hows'ever | I |
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| Father 'Twas the train lad 'twas the train | B2 |
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| Son May be I had no business with a train | B2 |
| 'Go thee by rail ' you told me 'by the rail | D |
| At Defford' and didst make a fool of me | C |
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| Father Ay lad I did indeed it was methinks | X |
| Some twenty years agone last Martinmas | X |
Walter Savage Landor
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