Lucy Gray Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE AFAF GHGH CICI JKJK HLHL MNMN GOGO PDPE PPPP QRQR PSPS TUTU PPPP VPVPOft I had heard of Lucy Gray | A |
And when I cross'd the Wild | B |
I chanc'd 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 wild 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 thro' the snow | H |
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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 | I |
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At this the Father rais'd his hook | J |
And snapp'd 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 powd'ry snow | H |
That rises up like smoke | L |
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The storm came on before its time | M |
She wander'd up and down | N |
And many a hill did Lucy climb | M |
But never reach'd 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 overlook'd the Moor | D |
And thence they saw the Bridge of Wood | P |
A furlong from their door | E |
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And now they homeward turn'd and cry'd | P |
In Heaven we all shall meet | P |
When in the snow the Mother spied | P |
The print of Lucy's feet | P |
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Then downward from the steep hill's edge | Q |
They track'd the footmarks small | R |
And through the broken hawthorn hedge | Q |
And by the long stone wall | R |
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And then an open field they cross'd | P |
The marks were still the same | S |
They track'd them on nor ever lost | P |
And to the Bridge they came | S |
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They follow'd from the snowy bank | T |
The footmarks one by one | U |
Into the middle of the plank | T |
And further there were none | U |
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Yet some maintain that to this day | P |
She is a living Child | P |
That you may see sweet Lucy Gray | P |
Upon the lonesome Wild | P |
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O'er rough and smooth she trips along | V |
And never looks behind | P |
And sings a solitary song | V |
That whistles in the wind | P |
William Wordsworth
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