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 E2F2E2F2I come ye little noisy Crew | A |
Not long your pastime to prevent | B |
I heard the blessing which to you | A |
Our common Friend and Father sent | B |
I kissed his cheek before he died | C |
And when his breath was fled | D |
I raised while kneeling by his side | C |
His hand it dropped like lead | D |
Your hands dear Little ones do all | E |
That can be done will never fall | E |
Like his till they are dead | D |
By night or day blow foul or fair | F |
Ne'er will the best of all your train | G |
Play with the locks of his white hair | F |
Or stand between his knees again | H |
Here did he sit confined for hours | I |
But he could see the woods and plains | J |
Could hear the wind and mark the showers | I |
Come streaming down the streaming panes | J |
Now stretched beneath his grass green mound | K |
He rests a prisoner of the ground | K |
He loved the breathing air | F |
He loved the sun but if it rise | L |
Or set to him where now he lies | L |
Brings not a moment's care | F |
Alas what idle words but take | M |
The Dirge which for our Master's sake | M |
And yours love prompted me to make | M |
The rhymes so homely in attire | N |
With learned ears may ill agree | O |
But chanted by your Orphan Quire | P |
Will make a touching melody | O |
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DIRGE | Q |
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Mourn Shepherd near thy old grey stone | R |
Thou Angler by the silent flood | S |
And mourn when thou art all alone | R |
Thou Woodman in the distant wood | T |
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Thou one blind Sailor rich in joy | U |
Though blind thy tunes in sadness hum | V |
And mourn thou poor half witted Boy | U |
Born deaf and living deaf and dumb | V |
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Thou drooping sick Man bless the Guide | C |
Who checked or turned thy headstrong youth | W |
As he before had sanctified | C |
Thy infancy with heavenly truth | W |
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Ye Striplings light of heart and gay | X |
Bold settlers on some foreign shore | Y |
Give when your thoughts are turned this way | X |
A sigh to him whom we deplore | Y |
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For us who here in funeral strain | G |
With one accord our voices raise | Z |
Let sorrow overcharged with pain | G |
Be lost in thankfulness and praise | Z |
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And when our hearts shall feel a sting | A2 |
From ill we meet or good we miss | B2 |
May touches of his memory bring | A2 |
Fond healing like a mother's kiss | B2 |
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BY THE SIDE OF THE GRAVE SOME YEARS AFTER | N |
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LONG time his pulse hath ceased to beat | C |
But benefits his gift we trace | C2 |
Expressed in every eye we meet | C |
Round this dear Vale his native place | C2 |
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To stately Hall and Cottage rude | C |
Flowed from his life what still they hold | C |
Light pleasures every day renewed | C |
And blessings half a century old | C |
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Oh true of heart of spirit gay | X |
Thy faults where not already gone | D2 |
From memory prolong their stay | X |
For charity's sweet sake alone | R |
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Such solace find we for our loss | E2 |
And what beyond this thought we crave | F2 |
Comes in the promise from the Cross | E2 |
Shining upon thy happy grave | F2 |
William Wordsworth
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