The Merry Guide Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE AGCG CHIH CJCJ KLML NOAO PJQJ RSAS TSSS UVCV DSWS CSXS QSPS CSKSOnce in the wind of morning | A |
I ranged the thymy wold | B |
The world wide air was azure | C |
And all the brooks ran gold | B |
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There through the dews beside me | D |
Behold a youth that trod | E |
With feathered cap on forehead | F |
And poised a golden rod | E |
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With mien to match the morning | A |
And gay delightful guise | G |
And friendly brows and laughter | C |
He looked me in the eyes | G |
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Oh whence I asked and whither | C |
He smiled and would not say | H |
And looked at me and beckoned | I |
And laughed and led the way | H |
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And with kind looks and laughter | C |
And nought to say beside | J |
We two went on together | C |
I and my happy guide | J |
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Across the glittering pastures | K |
And empty upland still | L |
And solitude of shepherds | M |
High in the folded hill | L |
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By hanging woods and hamlets | N |
That gaze through orchards down | O |
On many a windmill turning | A |
And far discovered town | O |
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With gay regards of promise | P |
And sure unslackened stride | J |
And smiles and nothing spoken | Q |
Led on my merry guide | J |
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By blowing realms of woodland | R |
With sunstruck vanes afield | S |
And cloud led shadows sailing | A |
About the windy weald | S |
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By valley guarded granges | T |
And silver waters wide | S |
Content at heart I followed | S |
With my delightful guide | S |
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And like the cloudy shadows | U |
Across the country blown | V |
We two fare on for ever | C |
But not we two alone | V |
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With the great gale we journey | D |
That breathes from gardens thinned | S |
Borne in the drift of blossoms | W |
Whose petals throng the wind | S |
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Buoyed on the heaven ward whisper | C |
Of dancing leaflets whirled | S |
From all the woods that autumn | X |
Bereaves in all the world | S |
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And midst the fluttering legion | Q |
Of all that ever died | S |
I follow and before us | P |
Goes the delightful guide | S |
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With lips that brim with laughter | C |
But never once respond | S |
And feet that fly on feathers | K |
And serpent circled wand | S |
Alfred Edward Housman
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