Lucy Gray Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE AFAF GHGH CICI JKJK HLHL MNMN GOGO PDPE PPPP QRQR PSPS TUTU PPPP VPVP

Oft I had heard of Lucy GrayA
And when I cross'd the WildB
I chanc'd to see at break of dayA
The solitary ChildB
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No Mate no comrade Lucy knewC
She dwelt on a wild MoorD
The sweetest Thing that ever grewC
Beside a human doorE
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You yet may spy the Fawn at playA
The Hare upon the GreenF
But the sweet face of Lucy GrayA
Will never more be seenF
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To night will be a stormy nightG
You to the Town must goH
And take a lantern Child to lightG
Your Mother thro' the snowH
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That Father will I gladly doC
'Tis scarcely afternoonI
The Minster clock has just struck twoC
And yonder is the MoonI
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At this the Father rais'd his hookJ
And snapp'd a faggot bandK
He plied his work and Lucy tookJ
The lantern in her handK
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Not blither is the mountain roeH
With many a wanton strokeL
Her feet disperse the powd'ry snowH
That rises up like smokeL
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The storm came on before its timeM
She wander'd up and downN
And many a hill did Lucy climbM
But never reach'd the TownN
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The wretched Parents all that nightG
Went shouting far and wideO
But there was neither sound nor sightG
To serve them for a guideO
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At day break on a hill they stoodP
That overlook'd the MoorD
And thence they saw the Bridge of WoodP
A furlong from their doorE
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And now they homeward turn'd and cry'dP
In Heaven we all shall meetP
When in the snow the Mother spiedP
The print of Lucy's feetP
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Then downward from the steep hill's edgeQ
They track'd the footmarks smallR
And through the broken hawthorn hedgeQ
And by the long stone wallR
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And then an open field they cross'dP
The marks were still the sameS
They track'd them on nor ever lostP
And to the Bridge they cameS
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They follow'd from the snowy bankT
The footmarks one by oneU
Into the middle of the plankT
And further there were noneU
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Yet some maintain that to this dayP
She is a living ChildP
That you may see sweet Lucy GrayP
Upon the lonesome WildP
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O'er rough and smooth she trips alongV
And never looks behindP
And sings a solitary songV
That whistles in the windP

William Wordsworth



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