A Song Of Sherwood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABB CCDD EEFF GGDD HIJJ KKDD GGLL MMDD NNKK GGKK OODD PPQQ CCDD| ly shadows are gliding through the brake | A |
| Shadows of the dappled deer dreaming of the morn | B |
| Dreaming of a shadowy man that winds a shadowy horn | B |
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| Robin Hood is here again all his merry thieves | C |
| Hear a ghostly bugle note shivering through the leaves | C |
| Calling as he used to call faint and far away | D |
| In Sherwood in Sherwood about the break of day | D |
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| Merry merry England has kissed the lips of June | E |
| All the wings of fairyland were here beneath the moon | E |
| Like a flight of rose leaves fluttering in a mist | F |
| Of opal and ruby and pearl and amethyst | F |
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| Merry merry England is waking as of old | G |
| With eyes of blither hazel and hair of brighter gold | G |
| For Robin Hood is here again beneath the bursting spray | D |
| In Sherwood in Sherwood about the break of day | D |
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| Love is in the greenwood building him a house | H |
| Of wild rose and hawthorn and honeysuckle boughs | I |
| Love is in the greenwood dawn is in the skies | J |
| And Marian is waiting with a glory in her eyes | J |
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| Hark The dazzled laverock climbs the golden steep | K |
| Marian is waiting is Robin Hood asleep | K |
| Round the fairy grass rings frolic elf and fay | D |
| In Sherwood in Sherwood about the break of day | D |
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| Oberon Oberon rake away the gold | G |
| Rake away the red leaves roll away the mould | G |
| Rake away the gold leaves roll away the red | L |
| And wake Will Scarlett from his leafy forest bed | L |
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| Friar Tuck and Little John are riding down together | M |
| With quarter staff and drinking can and grey goose feather | M |
| The dead are coming back again the years are rolled away | D |
| In Sherwood in Sherwood about the break of day | D |
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| Softly over Sherwood the south wind blows | N |
| All the heart of England his in every rose | N |
| Hears across the greenwood the sunny whisper leap | K |
| Sherwood in the red dawn is Robin Hood asleep | K |
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| Hark the voice of England wakes him as of old | G |
| And shattering the silence with a cry of brighter gold | G |
| Bugles in the greenwood echo from the steep | K |
| Sherwood in the red dawn is Robin Hood asleep | K |
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| Where the deer are gliding down the shadowy glen | O |
| All across the glades of fern he calls his merry men | O |
| Doublets of the Lincoln green glancing through the May | D |
| In Sherwood in Sherwood about the break of day | D |
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| Calls them and they answer from aisles of oak and ash | P |
| Rings the Follow Follow and the boughs begin to crash | P |
| The ferns begin to flutter and the flowers begin to fly | Q |
| And through the crimson dawning the robber band goes by | Q |
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| Robin Robin Robin All his merry thieves | C |
| Answer as the bugle note shivers through the leaves | C |
| Calling as he used to call faint and far away | D |
| In Sherwood in Sherwood about the break of day | D |
Alfred Noyes
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