The Solitary Reaper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDEE EFEFEEGG HIHIJJDK LMNMOOPP| Behold 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 |
| - | |
| 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 to day | 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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