Address To The Scholars Of The Village School Of ---- Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEEDFGFHIJIJK KFLLFMMMNOPO Q RSRT UVUV CWCW XYXY GZGZ A2B2A2B2 N CC2CC2 CCCC XD2XR E2F2E2F2

I come ye little noisy CrewA
Not long your pastime to preventB
I heard the blessing which to youA
Our common Friend and Father sentB
I kissed his cheek before he diedC
And when his breath was fledD
I raised while kneeling by his sideC
His hand it dropped like leadD
Your hands dear Little ones do allE
That can be done will never fallE
Like his till they are deadD
By night or day blow foul or fairF
Ne'er will the best of all your trainG
Play with the locks of his white hairF
Or stand between his knees againH
Here did he sit confined for hoursI
But he could see the woods and plainsJ
Could hear the wind and mark the showersI
Come streaming down the streaming panesJ
Now stretched beneath his grass green moundK
He rests a prisoner of the groundK
He loved the breathing airF
He loved the sun but if it riseL
Or set to him where now he liesL
Brings not a moment's careF
Alas what idle words but takeM
The Dirge which for our Master's sakeM
And yours love prompted me to makeM
The rhymes so homely in attireN
With learned ears may ill agreeO
But chanted by your Orphan QuireP
Will make a touching melodyO
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DIRGEQ
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Mourn Shepherd near thy old grey stoneR
Thou Angler by the silent floodS
And mourn when thou art all aloneR
Thou Woodman in the distant woodT
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Thou one blind Sailor rich in joyU
Though blind thy tunes in sadness humV
And mourn thou poor half witted BoyU
Born deaf and living deaf and dumbV
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Thou drooping sick Man bless the GuideC
Who checked or turned thy headstrong youthW
As he before had sanctifiedC
Thy infancy with heavenly truthW
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Ye Striplings light of heart and gayX
Bold settlers on some foreign shoreY
Give when your thoughts are turned this wayX
A sigh to him whom we deploreY
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For us who here in funeral strainG
With one accord our voices raiseZ
Let sorrow overcharged with painG
Be lost in thankfulness and praiseZ
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And when our hearts shall feel a stingA2
From ill we meet or good we missB2
May touches of his memory bringA2
Fond healing like a mother's kissB2
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BY THE SIDE OF THE GRAVE SOME YEARS AFTERN
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LONG time his pulse hath ceased to beatC
But benefits his gift we traceC2
Expressed in every eye we meetC
Round this dear Vale his native placeC2
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To stately Hall and Cottage rudeC
Flowed from his life what still they holdC
Light pleasures every day renewedC
And blessings half a century oldC
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Oh true of heart of spirit gayX
Thy faults where not already goneD2
From memory prolong their stayX
For charity's sweet sake aloneR
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Such solace find we for our lossE2
And what beyond this thought we craveF2
Comes in the promise from the CrossE2
Shining upon thy happy graveF2

William Wordsworth



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