We Are Seven Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HI EI JIJI KLKL JIJI KIKI HMHM NOPO QRQR LFFF STST HFHF UOUO FVFV EVWWVA simple Child | A |
That lightly draws its breath | B |
And feels its life in every limb | C |
What should it know of death | B |
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I met a little cottage Girl | D |
She was eight years old she said | E |
Her hair was thick with many a curl | D |
That clustered round her head | E |
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She had a rustic woodland air | F |
And she was wildly clad | G |
Her eyes were fair and very fair | F |
Her beauty made me glad | G |
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Sisters and brothers little Maid | H |
How many may you be | I |
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How many Seven in all she said | E |
And wondering looked at me | I |
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And where are they I pray you tell | J |
She answered Seven are we | I |
And two of us at Conway dwell | J |
And two are gone to sea | I |
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Two of us in the church yard lie | K |
My sister and my brother | L |
And in the church yard cottage I | K |
Dwell near them with my mother | L |
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You say that two at Conway dwell | J |
And two are gone to sea | I |
Yet ye are seven I pray you tell | J |
Sweet Maid how this may be | I |
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Then did the little Maid reply | K |
Seven boys and girls are we | I |
Two of us in the church yard lie | K |
Beneath the church yard tree | I |
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You run about my little Maid | H |
Your limbs they are alive | M |
If two are in the church yard laid | H |
Then ye are only five | M |
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Their graves are green they may be seen | N |
The little Maid replied | O |
Twelve steps or more from my mother's door | P |
And they are side by side | O |
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My stockings there I often knit | Q |
My kerchief there I hem | R |
And there upon the ground I sit | Q |
And sing a song to them | R |
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And often after sunset Sir | L |
When it is light and fair | F |
I take my little porringer | F |
And eat my supper there | F |
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The first that died was sister Jane | S |
In bed she moaning lay | T |
Till God released her of her pain | S |
And then she went away | T |
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So in the church yard she was laid | H |
And when the grass was dry | F |
Together round her grave we played | H |
My brother John and I | F |
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And when the ground was white with snow | U |
And I could run and slide | O |
My brother John was forced to go | U |
And he lies by her side | O |
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How many are you then said I | F |
If they two are in heaven | V |
Quick was the little Maid's reply | F |
O Master we are seven | V |
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But they are dead those two are dead | E |
Their spirits are in heaven | V |
'Twas throwing words away for still | W |
The little Maid would have her will | W |
And said Nay we are seven | V |
William Wordsworth
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