The Tables Turned Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL JMJM NJNJ| Up up my Friend and quit your books | A |
| Or surely you'll grow double | B |
| Up up my Friend and clear your looks | A |
| Why all this toil and trouble | B |
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| The sun above the mountain's head | C |
| A freshening lustre mellow | D |
| Through all the long green fields has spread | C |
| His first sweet evening yellow | D |
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| Books 'tis a dull and endless strife | E |
| Come hear the woodland linnet | F |
| How sweet his music on my life | E |
| There's more of wisdom in it | F |
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| And hark how blithe the throstle sings | G |
| He too is no mean preacher | H |
| Come forth into the light of things | G |
| Let Nature be your teacher | H |
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| She has a world of ready wealth | I |
| Our minds and hearts to bless | J |
| Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health | I |
| Truth breathed by cheerfulness | J |
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| One impulse from a vernal wood | K |
| May teach you more of man | L |
| Of moral evil and of good | K |
| Than all the sages can | L |
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| Sweet is the lore which Nature brings | J |
| Our meddling intellect | M |
| Mis shapes the beauteous forms of things | J |
| We murder to dissect | M |
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| Enough of Science and of Art | N |
| Close up those barren leaves | J |
| Come forth and bring with you a heart | N |
| That watches and receives | J |
William Wordsworth
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