Matthew Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIHI JKLK MNMM OPOP QGQG| IF Nature for a favourite child | A |
| In thee hath tempered so her clay | B |
| That every hour thy heart runs wild | A |
| Yet never once doth go astray | B |
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| Read o'er these lines and then review | C |
| This tablet that thus humbly rears | D |
| In such diversity of hue | C |
| Its history of two hundred years | D |
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| When through this little wreck of fame | E |
| Cipher and syllable thine eye | F |
| Has travelled down to Matthew's name | E |
| Pause with no common sympathy | G |
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| And if a sleeping tear should wake | H |
| Then be it neither checked nor stayed | I |
| For Matthew a request I make | H |
| Which for himself he had not made | I |
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| Poor Matthew all his frolics o'er | J |
| Is silent as a standing pool | K |
| Far from the chimney's merry roar | L |
| And murmur of the village school | K |
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| The sighs which Matthew heaved were sighs | M |
| Of one tired out with fun and madness | N |
| The tears which came to Matthew's eyes | M |
| Were tears of light the dew of gladness | M |
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| Yet sometimes when the secret cup | O |
| Of still and serious thought went round | P |
| It seemed as if he drank it up | O |
| He felt with spirit so profound | P |
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| Thou soul of God's best earthly mould | Q |
| Thou happy Soul and can it be | G |
| That these two words of glittering gold | Q |
| Are all that must remain of thee | G |
William Wordsworth
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