To The Rev. F.d. Maurice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCB DDED FFGF HHIH JJKJ LLML NNON PPQP RSTR UVQU WWXY ZA2AA2| January | A |
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| Come when no graver cares employ | B |
| Godfather come and see your boy | B |
| Your presence will be sun in winter | C |
| Making the little one leap for joy | B |
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| For being of that honest few | D |
| Who give the Fiend himself his due | D |
| Should eighty thousand college councils | E |
| Thunder 'Anathema ' friend at you | D |
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| Should all our churchmen foam in spite | F |
| At you so careful of the right | F |
| Yet one lay hearth would give you welcome | G |
| Take it and come to the Isle of Wight | F |
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| Where far from noise and smoke of town | H |
| I watch the twilight falling brown | H |
| All round a careless order'd garden | I |
| Close to the ridge of a noble down | H |
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| You'll have no scandal while you dine | J |
| But honest talk and wholesome wine | J |
| And only hear the magpie gossip | K |
| Garrulous under a roof of pine | J |
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| For groves of pine on either hand | L |
| To break the blast of winter stand | L |
| And further on the hoary Channel | M |
| Tumbles a billow on chalk and sand | L |
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| Where if below the milky steep | N |
| Some ship of battle slowly creep | N |
| And on thro' zones of light and shadow | O |
| Glimmer away to the lonely deep | N |
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| We might discuss the Northern sin | P |
| Which made a selfish war begin | P |
| Dispute the claims arrange the chances | Q |
| Emperor Ottoman which shall win | P |
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| Or whether war's avenging rod | R |
| Shall lash all Europe into blood | S |
| Till you should turn to dearer matters | T |
| Dear to the man that is dear to God | R |
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| How best to help the slender store | U |
| How mend the dwellings of the poor | V |
| How gain in life as life advances | Q |
| Valour and charity more and more | U |
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| Come Maurice come the lawn as yet | W |
| Is hoar with rime or spongy wet | W |
| But when the wreath of March has blossom'd | X |
| Crocus anemone violet | Y |
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| Or later pay one visit here | Z |
| For those are few we hold as dear | A2 |
| Nor pay but one but come for many | A |
| Many and many a happy year | A2 |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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