The White Road Up Athirt The Hill Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCCD EEFFGGGH CCIIJJJD IIKKIIID IIIILMLD JJFFNNNF| WHEN high hot zuns da strik right down | A |
| An' burn our zweaty fiazen brown | A |
| An' zunny hangens that be nigh | B |
| Be back'd by hills so blue's the sky | B |
| Then while the bells da sweetly cheem | C |
| Upon the champen high neck'd team | C |
| How lively wi' a friend da seem | C |
| The white road up athirt the hill | D |
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| The zwellen downs wi' chalky tracks | E |
| A climmen up ther zunny backs | E |
| Da hide green meads an' zedgy brooks | F |
| An' clumps o' trees wi' glossy rooks | F |
| An' hearty vo'ke to lafe and zing | G |
| An' churches wi' ther bells to ring | G |
| In parishes al in a string | G |
| Wi' white roads up athirt the hills | H |
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| At feast when uncle's vo'ke da come | C |
| To spend the da wi' we at huome | C |
| An' we da put upon the buard | I |
| The best of al we can avvuord | I |
| The wolden oons do ta'ke an' smoke | J |
| An' younger oons da play an' joke | J |
| An' in the evemen all our vo'ke | J |
| Da bring 'em gwain athirt the hill | D |
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| Var then the green da zwarm wi' wold | I |
| An' young so thick as sheep in vuold | I |
| The billis in the blacksmith's shop | K |
| An' mesh green waterwheel da stop | K |
| An' luonesome in the wheelwright's shed | I |
| 's a left the wheelless waggon bed | I |
| While zwarms o' comen friends da tread | I |
| The white road down athirt the hill | D |
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| An' when the winden road so white | I |
| A climmen up the hill in zight | I |
| Da lead to pliazen east ar west | I |
| The vust a know'd an' lov'd the best | I |
| How touchen in the zunsheen's glow | L |
| Ar in the shiades that clouds da drow | M |
| Upon the zunburn'd down below | L |
| 's the white road up athirt the hill | D |
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| What pirty hollers now the long | J |
| White roads da windy roun' among | J |
| Wi' dairy cows in woody nooks | F |
| An' haymiakers among ther pooks | F |
| An' housen that the trees da screen | N |
| Vrom zun an' zight by boughs o' green | N |
| Young blushen beauty's huomes between | N |
| The white roads up athirt the hills | F |
William Barnes
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