To The Spade Of A Friend (an Agriculturist) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGFG HIHB JKJK LBLB MNMN OPOP| COMPOSED WHILE WE WERE LABOURING TOGETHER IN HIS PLEASURE GROUND | A |
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| SPADE with which Wilkinson hath tilled his lands | B |
| And shaped these pleasant walks by Emont's side | C |
| Thou art a tool of honour in my hands | B |
| I press thee through the yielding soil with pride | C |
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| Rare master has it been thy lot to know | D |
| Long hast Thou served a man to reason true | E |
| Whose life combines the best of high and low | D |
| The labouring many and the resting few | E |
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| Health meekness ardour quietness secure | F |
| And industry of body and of mind | G |
| And elegant enjoyments that are pure | F |
| As nature is too pure to be refined | G |
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| Here often hast Thou heard the Poet sing | H |
| In concord with his river murmuring by | I |
| Or in some silent field while timid spring | H |
| Is yet uncheered by other minstrelsy | B |
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| Who shall inherit Thee when death has laid | J |
| Low in the darksome cell thine own dear lord | K |
| That man will have a trophy humble Spade | J |
| A trophy nobler than a conqueror's sword | K |
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| If he be one that feels with skill to part | L |
| False praise from true or greater from the less | B |
| Thee will he welcome to his hand and heart | L |
| Thou monument of peaceful happiness | B |
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| He will not dread with Thee a toilsome day | M |
| Thee his loved servant his inspiring mate | N |
| And when thou art past service worn away | M |
| No dull oblivious nook shall hide thy fate | N |
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| His thrift thy uselessness will never scorn | O |
| An 'heir loom' in his cottage wilt thou be | P |
| High will he hang thee up well pleased to adorn | O |
| His rustic chimney with the last of Thee | P |
William Wordsworth
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