Address To A Child During A Boisterous Winter By My Sister Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEAFFGGHHIICCJJKKAA LLMMNOBBPPQQRRCC| What way does the wind come What way does he go | A |
| He rides over the water and over the snow | A |
| Through wood and through vale and o'er rocky height | B |
| Which the goat cannot climb takes his sounding flight | B |
| He tosses about in every bare tree | C |
| As if you look up you plainly may see | C |
| But how he will come and whither he goes | D |
| There's never a scholar in England knows | D |
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| He will suddenly stop in a cunning nook | E |
| And ring a sharp 'larum but if you should look | E |
| There's nothing to see but a cushion of snow | A |
| Round as a pillow and whiter than milk | F |
| And softer than if it were covered with silk | F |
| Sometimes he'll hide in the cave of a rock | G |
| Then whistle as shrill as the buzzard cock | G |
| Yet seek him and what shall you find in the place | H |
| Nothing but silence and empty space | H |
| Save in a corner a heap of dry leaves | I |
| That he's left for a bed to beggars or thieves | I |
| As soon as 'tis daylight to morrow with me | C |
| You shall go to the orchard and then you will see | C |
| That he has been there and made a great rout | J |
| And cracked the branches and strewn them about | J |
| Heaven grant that he spare but that one upright twig | K |
| That looked up at the sky so proud and big | K |
| All last summer as well you know | A |
| Studded with apples a beautiful show | A |
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| Hark over the roof he makes a pause | L |
| And growls as if he would fix his claws | L |
| Right in the slates and with a huge rattle | M |
| Drive them down like men in a battle | M |
| But let him range round he does us no harm | N |
| We build up the fire we're snug and warm | O |
| Untouched by his breath see the candle shines bright | B |
| And burns with a clear and steady light | B |
| Books have we to read but that half stifled knell | P |
| Alas 'tis the sound of the eight o'clock bell | P |
| Come now we'll to bed and when we are there | Q |
| He may work his own will and what shall we care | Q |
| He may knock at the door we'll not let him in | R |
| May drive at the windows we'll laugh at his din | R |
| Let him seek his own home wherever it be | C |
| Here's a 'cozie' warm house for Edward and me | C |
William Wordsworth
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