The Childless Father Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEE FFGG AAHH I JJ| 'Up Timothy up with your staff and away | A |
| Not a soul in the village this morning will stay | A |
| The hare has just started from Hamilton's grounds | B |
| And Skiddaw is glad with the cry of the hounds ' | C |
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| Of coats and of jackets grey scarlet and green | D |
| On the slopes of the pastures all colours were seen | D |
| With their comely blue aprons and caps white as snow | E |
| The girls on the hills made a holiday show | E |
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| Fresh sprigs of green box wood not six months before | F |
| Filled the funeral basin at Timothy's door | F |
| A coffin through Timothy's threshold had past | G |
| One Child did it bear and that Child was his last | G |
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| Now fast up the dell came the noise and the fray | A |
| The horse and the horn and the hark hark away | A |
| Old Timothy took up his staff and he shut | H |
| With a leisurely motion the door of his hut | H |
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| Perhaps to himself at that moment he said | I |
| 'The key I must take for my Ellen is dead ' | - |
| But of this in my ears not a word did he speak | J |
| And he went to the chase with a tear on his cheek | J |
William Wordsworth
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