The Merry Guide Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE AGCG CHIH CJCJ KLML NOAO PJQJ RSAS TSSS UVCV DSWS CSXS QSPS CSKS

Once in the wind of morningA
I ranged the thymy woldB
The world wide air was azureC
And all the brooks ran goldB
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There through the dews beside meD
Behold a youth that trodE
With feathered cap on foreheadF
And poised a golden rodE
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With mien to match the morningA
And gay delightful guiseG
And friendly brows and laughterC
He looked me in the eyesG
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Oh whence I asked and whitherC
He smiled and would not sayH
And looked at me and beckonedI
And laughed and led the wayH
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And with kind looks and laughterC
And nought to say besideJ
We two went on togetherC
I and my happy guideJ
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Across the glittering pasturesK
And empty upland stillL
And solitude of shepherdsM
High in the folded hillL
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By hanging woods and hamletsN
That gaze through orchards downO
On many a windmill turningA
And far discovered townO
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With gay regards of promiseP
And sure unslackened strideJ
And smiles and nothing spokenQ
Led on my merry guideJ
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By blowing realms of woodlandR
With sunstruck vanes afieldS
And cloud led shadows sailingA
About the windy wealdS
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By valley guarded grangesT
And silver waters wideS
Content at heart I followedS
With my delightful guideS
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And like the cloudy shadowsU
Across the country blownV
We two fare on for everC
But not we two aloneV
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With the great gale we journeyD
That breathes from gardens thinnedS
Borne in the drift of blossomsW
Whose petals throng the windS
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Buoyed on the heaven ward whisperC
Of dancing leaflets whirledS
From all the woods that autumnX
Bereaves in all the worldS
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And midst the fluttering legionQ
Of all that ever diedS
I follow and before usP
Goes the delightful guideS
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With lips that brim with laughterC
But never once respondS
And feet that fly on feathersK
And serpent circled wandS

Alfred Edward Housman



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