The Echoing Green Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFF GGHHIIJJFF KKLLMMNNFF| The Sun does arise | A |
| And make happy the skies | A |
| The merry bells ring | B |
| To welcome the Spring | B |
| The sky lark and thrush | C |
| The birds of the bush | D |
| Sing louder around | E |
| To the bells cheerful sound | E |
| While our sports shall be seen | F |
| On the Echoing Green | F |
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| Old John with white hair | G |
| Does laugh away care | G |
| Sitting under the oak | H |
| Among the old folk | H |
| They laugh at our play | I |
| And soon they all say | I |
| Such such were the joys | J |
| When we all girls amp boys | J |
| In our youth time were seen | F |
| On the Echoing Green | F |
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| Till the little ones weary | K |
| No more can be merry | K |
| The sun does descend | L |
| And our sports have an end | L |
| Round the laps of their mothers | M |
| Many sisters and brothers | M |
| Like birds in their nest | N |
| Are ready for rest | N |
| And sport no more seen | F |
| On the darkening Green | F |
William Blake
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