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 EVWWV

A simple ChildA
That lightly draws its breathB
And feels its life in every limbC
What should it know of deathB
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I met a little cottage GirlD
She was eight years old she saidE
Her hair was thick with many a curlD
That clustered round her headE
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She had a rustic woodland airF
And she was wildly cladG
Her eyes were fair and very fairF
Her beauty made me gladG
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Sisters and brothers little MaidH
How many may you beI
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How many Seven in all she saidE
And wondering looked at meI
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And where are they I pray you tellJ
She answered Seven are weI
And two of us at Conway dwellJ
And two are gone to seaI
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Two of us in the church yard lieK
My sister and my brotherL
And in the church yard cottage IK
Dwell near them with my motherL
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You say that two at Conway dwellJ
And two are gone to seaI
Yet ye are seven I pray you tellJ
Sweet Maid how this may beI
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Then did the little Maid replyK
Seven boys and girls are weI
Two of us in the church yard lieK
Beneath the church yard treeI
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You run about my little MaidH
Your limbs they are aliveM
If two are in the church yard laidH
Then ye are only fiveM
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Their graves are green they may be seenN
The little Maid repliedO
Twelve steps or more from my mother's doorP
And they are side by sideO
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My stockings there I often knitQ
My kerchief there I hemR
And there upon the ground I sitQ
And sing a song to themR
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And often after sunset SirL
When it is light and fairF
I take my little porringerF
And eat my supper thereF
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The first that died was sister JaneS
In bed she moaning layT
Till God released her of her painS
And then she went awayT
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So in the church yard she was laidH
And when the grass was dryF
Together round her grave we playedH
My brother John and IF
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And when the ground was white with snowU
And I could run and slideO
My brother John was forced to goU
And he lies by her sideO
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How many are you then said IF
If they two are in heavenV
Quick was the little Maid's replyF
O Master we are sevenV
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But they are dead those two are deadE
Their spirits are in heavenV
'Twas throwing words away for stillW
The little Maid would have her willW
And said Nay we are sevenV

William Wordsworth



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