Lucy Gray, Or Solitude Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE AFAF GHG CIC JKJK HLHL MNMN GOGO PDPE O OQ RSRS TUTU VWVW ABAB XYXYOft I had heard of Lucy Gray | A |
And when I crossed the wild | B |
I chanced to see at break of day | A |
The solitary child | B |
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No mate no comrade Lucy knew | C |
She dwelt on a wide moor | D |
The sweetest thing that ever grew | C |
Beside a human door | E |
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You yet may spy the fawn at play | A |
The hare upon the green | F |
But the sweet face of Lucy Gray | A |
Will never more be seen | F |
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'To night will be a stormy night | G |
You to the town must go | H |
And take a lantern Child to light | G |
Your mother through the snow ' | - |
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'That Father will I gladly do | C |
'Tis scarcely afternoon | I |
The minster clock has just struck two | C |
And yonder is the moon ' | - |
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At this the Father raised his hook | J |
And snapped a faggot band | K |
He plied his work and Lucy took | J |
The lantern in her hand | K |
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Not blither is the mountain roe | H |
With many a wanton stroke | L |
Her feet disperse the powdery snow | H |
That rises up like smoke | L |
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The storm came on before its time | M |
She wandered up and down | N |
And many a hill did Lucy climb | M |
But never reached the town | N |
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The wretched parents all that night | G |
Went shouting far and wide | O |
But there was neither sound nor sight | G |
To serve them for a guide | O |
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At day break on a hill they stood | P |
That overlooked the moor | D |
And thence they saw the bridge of wood | P |
A furlong from their door | E |
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They wept and turning homeward cried | O |
'In heaven we all shall meet ' | - |
When in the snow the mother spied | O |
The print of Lucy's feet | Q |
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Then downwards from the steep hill's edge | R |
They tracked the footmarks small | S |
And through the broken hawthorn hedge | R |
And by the long stone wall | S |
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And then an open field they crossed | T |
The marks were still the same | U |
They tracked them on nor ever lost | T |
And to the bridge they came | U |
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They followed from the snowy bank | V |
Those footmarks one by one | W |
Into the middle of the plank | V |
And further there were none | W |
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Yet some maintain that to this day | A |
She is a living child | B |
That you may see sweet Lucy Gray | A |
Upon the lonesome wild | B |
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O'er rough and smooth she trips along | X |
And never looks behind | Y |
And sings a solitary song | X |
That whistles in the wind | Y |
William Wordsworth
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