The Reaper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDEE EFEFEEGG HIHIJJDK LMNMOOPPBehold her single in the field | A |
Yon solitary Highland Lass | B |
Reaping and singing by herself | C |
Stop here or gently pass | B |
Alone she cuts and binds the grain | D |
And sings a melancholy strain | D |
O listen for the vale profound | E |
Is overflowing with the sound | E |
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No nightingale did ever chaunt | E |
More welcome notes to weary bands | F |
Of travellers in some shady haunt | E |
Among Arabian sands | F |
A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard | E |
In spring time from the cuckoo bird | E |
Breaking the silence of the seas | G |
Among the farthest Hebrides | G |
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Will no one tell me what she sings | H |
Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow | I |
For old unhappy far off things | H |
And battles long ago | I |
Or is it some more humble lay | J |
Familiar matter of today | J |
Some natural sorrow loss or pain | D |
That has been and may be again | K |
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Whate'er the theme the maiden sang | L |
As if her song could have no ending | M |
I saw her singing at her work | N |
And o'er the sickle bending | M |
I listened motionless and still | O |
And as I mounted up the hill | O |
The music in my heart I bore | P |
Long after it was heard no more | P |
William Wordsworth
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