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 NGOOG

A plague on your languages German and NorseA
Let me have the song of the kettleB
And the tongs and the poker instead of that horseA
That gallops away with such fury and forceA
On this dreary dull plate of black metalB
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See that Fly a disconsolate creature perhapsC
A child of the field or the groveD
And sorrow for him the dull treacherous heatE
Has seduced the poor fool from his winter retreatE
And he creeps to the edge of my stoveD
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Alas how he fumbles about the domainsF
Which this comfortless oven environG
He cannot find out in what track he must crawlH
Now back to the tiles then in search of the wallH
And now on the brink of the ironG
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Stock still there he stands like a traveller bemazedE
The best of his skill he has triedE
His feelers methinks I can see him put forthI
To the east and the west to the south and the northI
But he finds neither guide post nor guideE
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His spindles sink under him foot leg and thighJ
His eyesight and hearing are lostE
Between life and death his blood freezes and thawsK
And his two pretty pinions of blue dusky gauzeK
Are glued to his sides by the frostE
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No brother no mate has he near him while IJ
Can draw warmth from the cheek of my LoveL
As blest and as glad in this desolate gloomM
As if green summer grass were the floor of my roomM
And woodbines were hanging aboveL
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Yet God is my witness thou small helpless ThingN
Thy life I would gladly sustainG
Till summer come up from the south and with crowdsO
Of thy brethren a march thou should'st sound through the cloudsO
And back to the forests againG

William Wordsworth



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