The Two April Mornings Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FFFF BGB HIHI JKJK LMLM NONO PQRQ ESES TUTU VWVW ODOD XYZ A2B2A2B2| We walked along while bright and red | A |
| Uprose the morning sun | B |
| And Matthew stopped he looked and said | A |
| 'The will of God be done ' | C |
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| A village schoolmaster was he | D |
| With hair of glittering grey | E |
| As blithe a man as yon could see | D |
| On a spring holiday | E |
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| And on that morning through the grass | F |
| And by the steaming rills | F |
| We travelled merrily to pass | F |
| A day among the hills | F |
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| 'Our work ' said I 'was well begun | B |
| Then from thy breast what thought | G |
| Beneath so beautiful a sun | B |
| So sad a sigh has brought ' | - |
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| A second time did Matthew stop | H |
| And fixing still his eye | I |
| Upon the eastern mountain top | H |
| To me he made reply | I |
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| 'Yon cloud with that long purple cleft | J |
| Brings fresh into my mind | K |
| A day like this which I have left | J |
| Full thirty years behind | K |
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| 'And just above yon slope of corn | L |
| Such colours and no other | M |
| Were in the sky that April morn | L |
| Of this the very brother | M |
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| 'With rod and line I sued the sport | N |
| Which that sweet season gave | O |
| And to the church yard come stopped short | N |
| Beside my daughter's grave | O |
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| 'Nine summers had she scarcely seen | P |
| The pride of all the vale | Q |
| And then she sang she would have been | R |
| A very nightingale | Q |
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| 'Six feet in earth my Emma lay | E |
| And yet I loved her more | S |
| For so it seemed than till that day | E |
| I e'er had loved before | S |
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| 'And turning from her grave I met | T |
| Beside the church yard yew | U |
| A blooming Girl whose hair was wet | T |
| With points of morning dew | U |
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| 'A basket on her head she bare | V |
| Her brow was smooth and white | W |
| To see a child so very fair | V |
| It was a pure delight | W |
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| 'No fountain from its rocky cave | O |
| E'er tripped with foot so free | D |
| She seemed as happy as a wave | O |
| That dances on the sea | D |
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| 'There came from me a sigh of pain | X |
| Which I could ill confine | Y |
| I looked at her and looked again | Z |
| And did not wish her mine ' | - |
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| Matthew is in his grave yet now | A2 |
| Methinks I see him stand | B2 |
| As at that moment with a bough | A2 |
| Of wilding in his hand | B2 |
William Wordsworth
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