Written In Germany, On One Of The Coldest Days Of The Century Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDEED FGHHG EEIIE JEKKE JLMML NGOOGA plague on your languages German and Norse | A |
Let me have the song of the kettle | B |
And the tongs and the poker instead of that horse | A |
That gallops away with such fury and force | A |
On this dreary dull plate of black metal | B |
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See that Fly a disconsolate creature perhaps | C |
A child of the field or the grove | D |
And sorrow for him the dull treacherous heat | E |
Has seduced the poor fool from his winter retreat | E |
And he creeps to the edge of my stove | D |
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Alas how he fumbles about the domains | F |
Which this comfortless oven environ | G |
He cannot find out in what track he must crawl | H |
Now back to the tiles then in search of the wall | H |
And now on the brink of the iron | G |
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Stock still there he stands like a traveller bemazed | E |
The best of his skill he has tried | E |
His feelers methinks I can see him put forth | I |
To the east and the west to the south and the north | I |
But he finds neither guide post nor guide | E |
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His spindles sink under him foot leg and thigh | J |
His eyesight and hearing are lost | E |
Between life and death his blood freezes and thaws | K |
And his two pretty pinions of blue dusky gauze | K |
Are glued to his sides by the frost | E |
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No brother no mate has he near him while I | J |
Can draw warmth from the cheek of my Love | L |
As blest and as glad in this desolate gloom | M |
As if green summer grass were the floor of my room | M |
And woodbines were hanging above | L |
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Yet God is my witness thou small helpless Thing | N |
Thy life I would gladly sustain | G |
Till summer come up from the south and with crowds | O |
Of thy brethren a march thou should'st sound through the clouds | O |
And back to the forests again | G |
William Wordsworth
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