Audley Court Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCA D EFGHIJK ELEMNONP QRSQTNNNUVWMNFXYZA2B 2C2 JD2JE2F2G2NE2H2I2NE2 NJ2KE2 PNK2VNL2 EFPFWNM2N2KO2P2E Q2TME2CNR2S2ET2EU2EV 2U2H| Audley Court | A |
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| The Bull the Fleece are cramm d and not a room | B |
| For love or money Let us picnic there | C |
| At Audley Court | A |
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| I spoke while Audley feast | D |
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| Humm d like a hive all round the narrow quay | E |
| To Francis with a basket on his arm | F |
| To Francis just alighted from the boat | G |
| And breathing of the sea With all my heart | H |
| Said Francis Then we shoulder d thro the swarm | I |
| And rounded by the stillness of the beach | J |
| To where the bay runs up its latest horn | K |
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| We left the dying ebb that faintly lipp d | E |
| The flat red granite so by many a sweep | L |
| Of meadow smooth from aftermath we reach d | E |
| The griffin guarded gates and pass d thro all | M |
| The pillar d dusk of sounding sycamores | N |
| And cross d the garden to the gardener s lodge | O |
| With all its casements bedded and its walls | N |
| And chimneys muffled in the leafy vine | P |
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| There on a slope of orchard Francis laid | Q |
| A damask napkin wrought with horse and hound | R |
| Brought out a dusky loaf that smelt of home | S |
| And half cut down a pasty costly made | Q |
| Where quail and pigeon lark and leveret lay | T |
| Like fossils of the rock with golden yolks | N |
| Imbedded and injellied last with these | N |
| A flask of cider from his father s vats | N |
| Prime which I knew and so we sat and eat | U |
| And talk d old matters over who was dead | V |
| Who married who was like to be and how | W |
| The races went and who would rent the hall | M |
| Then touch d upon the game how scarce it was | N |
| This season glancing thence discuss d the farm | F |
| The four field system and the price of grain | X |
| And struck upon the corn laws where we split | Y |
| And came again together on the king | Z |
| With heated faces till he laugh d aloud | A2 |
| And while the blackbird on the pippin hung | B2 |
| To hear him clapt his hand in mine and sang | C2 |
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| Oh who would fight and march and countermarch | J |
| Be shot for sixpence in a battle field | D2 |
| And shovell d up into some bloody trench | J |
| Where no one knows but let me live my life | E2 |
| Oh who would cast and balance at a desk | F2 |
| Perch d like a crow upon a three legg d stool | G2 |
| Till all his juice is dried and all his joints | N |
| Are full of chalk but let me live my life | E2 |
| Who d serve the state for if I carved my name | H2 |
| Upon the cliffs that guard my native land | I2 |
| I might as well have traced it in the sands | N |
| The sea wastes all but let me live my life | E2 |
| Oh who would love I woo d a woman once | N |
| But she was sharper than an eastern wind | J2 |
| And all my heart turn d from her as a thorn | K |
| Turns from the sea but let me live my life | E2 |
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| He sang his song and I replied with mine | P |
| I found it in a volume all of songs | N |
| Knock d down to me when old Sir Robert s pride | K2 |
| His books the more the pity so I said | V |
| Came to the hammer here in March and this | N |
| I set the words and added names I knew | L2 |
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| Sleep Ellen Aubrey sleep and dream of me | E |
| Sleep Ellen folded in thy sister s arm | F |
| And sleeping haply dream her arm is mine | P |
| Sleep Ellen folded in Emilia s arm | F |
| Emilia fairer than all else but thou | W |
| For thou art fairer than all else that is | N |
| Sleep breathing health and peace upon her breast | M2 |
| Sleep breathing love and trust against her lip | N2 |
| I go to night I come to morrow morn | K |
| I go but I return I would I were | O2 |
| The pilot of the darkness and the dream | P2 |
| Sleep Ellen Aubrey love and dream of me | E |
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| So sang we each to either Francis Hale | Q2 |
| The farmer s son who lived across the bay | T |
| My friend and I that having wherewithal | M |
| And in the fallow leisure of my life | E2 |
| A rolling stone of here and everywhere | C |
| Did what I would but ere the night we rose | N |
| And saunter d home beneath a moon that just | R2 |
| In crescent dimly rain d about the leaf | S2 |
| Twilights of airy silver till we reach d | E |
| The limit of the hills and as we sank | T2 |
| From rock to rock upon the glooming quay | E |
| The town was hush d beneath us lower down | U2 |
| The bay was oily calm the harbour buoy | E |
| Sole star of phosphorescence in the calm | V2 |
| With one green sparkle ever and anon | U2 |
| Dipt by itself and we were glad at heart | H |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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