The Child An' The Mowers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABCBC AAAABDBD AAAAAEAE AFAFFBFB| O AYE they had woone child bezide | A |
| An' a finer your eyes never met | A |
| Twer a dear little fellow that died | A |
| In the summer that come wi' such het | A |
| By the mowers too thoughtless in fun | B |
| He wer then a zent off vrom our eyes | C |
| Vrom the light ov the dew dryen zun | B |
| Aye vrom days under the blue hollow'd skies | C |
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| He went out to the mowers in meade | A |
| When the zun wer a rose to his height | A |
| An' the men wer a swingen the snead | A |
| Wi' their earms in white sleeves left an' right | A |
| An' out there as they rested at noon | B |
| O they drench'd en vrom eale horns too deep | D |
| Till his thoughts wer a drown'd in a swoon | B |
| Aye his life wer a smother'd in sleep | D |
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| Then they laid en there right on the ground | A |
| On a grass heap a zweltren wi'het | A |
| Wi' his heair all a wetted around | A |
| His young feace wi' the big drops o' zweat | A |
| In his little left palm he'd a zet | A |
| Wi' his right hand his vore finger's tip | E |
| As vor zome hat he woulden vorget | A |
| Aye zome thought that he woulden let slip | E |
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| Then they took en in hwome to his bed | A |
| An' he rose vrom his pillow noo mwore | F |
| Vor the curls on his sleek little head | A |
| To be blown by the wind out o' door | F |
| Vor he died while the hay russled grey | F |
| On the staddle so leately begun | B |
| Lik' the mown grass a dried by the day | F |
| Aye the zwath flow'r's a killed by the zun | B |
William Barnes
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