Bellinglise Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDEFGHIIH A JKJKLMLMNNOCCO P| I | A |
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| Deep in the sloping forest that surrounds | B |
| The head of a green valley that I know | C |
| Spread the fair gardens and ancestral grounds | B |
| Of Bellinglise the beautiful chateau | C |
| Through shady groves and fields of unmown grass | D |
| It was my joy to come at dusk and see | E |
| Filling a little pond's untroubled glass | D |
| Its antique towers and mouldering masonry | E |
| Oh should I fall to morrow lay me here | F |
| That o'er my tomb with each reviving year | G |
| Wood flowers may blossom and the wood doves croon | H |
| And lovers by that unrecorded place | I |
| Passing may pause and cling a little space | I |
| Close bosomed at the rising of the moon | H |
| - | |
| II | A |
| - | |
| Here where in happier times the huntsman's horn | J |
| Echoing from far made sweet midsummer eves | K |
| Now serried cannon thunder night and morn | J |
| Tearing with iron the greenwood's tender leaves | K |
| Yet has sweet Spring no particle withdrawn | L |
| Of her old bounty still the song birds hail | M |
| Even through our fusillade delightful Dawn | L |
| Even in our wire bloom lilies of the vale | M |
| You who love flowers take these their fragile bells | N |
| Have trembled with the shock of volleyed shells | N |
| And in black nights when stealthy foes advance | O |
| They have been lit by the pale rockets' glow | C |
| That o'er scarred fields and ancient towns laid low | C |
| Trace in white fire the brave frontiers of France | O |
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| - | |
| May | P |
Alan Seeger
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