The Castle Ruins Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC BDBDEE DADAFF BFBFEE GGGGGG AAAAHH DGDGBB| A happy day at Whitsuntide | A |
| As soon 's the zun begun to vall | B |
| We all stroll'd up the steep hill zide | A |
| To Meldon gret an' small | B |
| Out where the Castle wall stood high | C |
| A mwoldren to the zunny sky | C |
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| An' there wi' Jenny took a stroll | B |
| Her youngest sister Poll so gay | D |
| Bezide John Hind ah merry soul | B |
| An' mid her wedlock fay | D |
| An' at our zides did play an' run | E |
| My little maid an' smaller son | E |
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| Above the baten mwold upsprung | D |
| The driven doust a spreaden light | A |
| An' on the new leav'd thorn a hung | D |
| Wer wool a quiv'ren white | A |
| An' corn a sheenen bright did bow | F |
| On slopen Meldon's zunny brow | F |
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| There down the roofless wall did glow | B |
| The zun upon the grassy vloor | F |
| An' weakly wandren winds did blow | B |
| Unhinder'd by a door | F |
| An' smokeless now avore the zun | E |
| Did stan' the ivy girded tun | E |
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| My bwoy did watch the daws' bright wings | G |
| A flappen vrom their ivy bow'rs | G |
| My wife did watch my maid's light springs | G |
| Out here an' there vor flow'rs | G |
| And John did zee noo tow'rs the place | G |
| Vor him had only Polly's face | G |
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| An' there of all that pried about | A |
| The walls I overlook'd em best | A |
| An' what o' that Why I made out | A |
| Noo mwore than all the rest | A |
| That there wer woonce the nest of zome | H |
| That wer a gone avore we come | H |
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| When woonce above the tun the smoke | D |
| Did wreathy blue among the trees | G |
| An' down below the liven vo'k | D |
| Did tweil as brisk as bees | G |
| Or zit wi' weary knees the while | B |
| The sky wer lightless to their tweil | B |
William Barnes
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