The Norman Boy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DDEE FGHH IIJJ IIKL IIII MMII IINN

High on a broad unfertile tract of forest skirted DownA
Nor kept by Nature for herself nor made by man his ownB
From home and company remote and every playful joyC
Served tending a few sheep and goats a ragged Norman BoyC
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Him never saw I nor the spot but from an English DameD
Stranger to me and yet my friend a simple notice cameD
With suit that I would speak in verse of that sequestered childE
Whom one bleak winter's day she met upon the dreary WildE
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His flock along the woodland's edge with relics sprinkled o'erF
Of last night's snow beneath a sky threatening the fall of moreG
Where tufts of herbage tempted each were busy at their feedH
And the poor Boy was busier still with work of anxious heedH
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There 'was' he where of branches rent and withered and decayedI
For covert from the keen north wind his hands a hut had madeI
A tiny tenement forsooth and frail as needs must beJ
A thing of such materials framed by a builder such as heJ
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The hut stood finished by his pains nor seemingly lacked aughtI
That skill or means of his could add but the architect had wroughtI
Some limber twigs into a Cross well shaped with fingers niceK
To be engrafted on the top of his small edificeL
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That Cross he now was fastening there as the surest power and bestI
For supplying all deficiencies all wants of the rude nestI
In which from burning heat or tempest driving far and wideI
The innocent Boy else shelterless his lonely head must hideI
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That Cross belike he also raised as a standard for the trueM
And faithful service of his heart in the worst that might ensueM
Of hardship and distressful fear amid the houseless wasteI
Where he in his poor self so weak by Providence was placedI
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Here Lady might I cease but nay let 'us' before we partI
With this dear holy shepherd boy breathe a prayer of earnest heartI
That unto him where'er shall lie his life's appointed wayN
The Cross fixed in his soul may prove an all sufficing stayN

William Wordsworth



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