There Was A Boy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLJMNJOPJJ QRJSF TUVJWXYZJ| There was a Boy ye knew him well ye cliffs | A |
| And islands of Winander many a time | B |
| At evening when the earliest stars began | C |
| To move along the edges of the hills | D |
| Rising or setting would he stand alone | E |
| Beneath the trees or by the glimmering lake | F |
| And there with fingers interwoven both hands | G |
| Pressed closely palm to palm and to his mouth | H |
| Uplifted he as through an instrument | I |
| Blew mimic hootings to the silent owls | J |
| That they might answer him And they would shout | K |
| Across the watery vale and shout again | L |
| Responsive to his call with quivering peals | J |
| And long halloos and screams and echoes loud | M |
| Redoubled and redoubled concourse wild | N |
| Of jocund din And when there came a pause | J |
| Of silence such as baffled his best skill | O |
| Then sometimes in that silence while he hung | P |
| Listening a gentle shock of mild surprise | J |
| Has carried far into his heart the voice | J |
| Of mountain torrents or the visible scene | Q |
| Would enter unawares into his mind | R |
| With all its solemn imagery its rocks | J |
| Its woods and that uncertain heaven received | S |
| Into the bosom of the steady lake | F |
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| This boy was taken from his mates and died | T |
| In childhood ere he was full twelve years old | U |
| Pre eminent in beauty is the vale | V |
| Where he was born and bred the churchyard hangs | J |
| Upon a slope above the village school | W |
| And through that churchyard when my way has led | X |
| On summer evenings I believe that there | Y |
| A long half hour together I have stood | Z |
| Mute looking at the grave in which he lies | J |
William Wordsworth
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