Fatboy

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…simple rhythmic beauty. Each stanza is four lines long and has alternating rhymed lines (ABAB). During each stanza Wordsworth used a horses trot to keep the beat throughout the poem to give it the feel of a song and to keep the poem flowing until the moon descends behind the cottage and he suddenly halts. Where as The Solitary Reaper is structured as with four stanzas with eight lines which follow a rhyme scheme (ABABCCDD).