Poet Alfred Noyes

Alfred Noyes

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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 brakeA
Shadows of the dappled deer dreaming of the mornB
Dreaming of a shadowy man that winds a shadowy hornB
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Robin Hood is here again all his merry thievesC
Hear a ghostly bugle note shivering through the leavesC
Calling as he used to call faint and far awayD
In Sherwood in Sherwood about the break of dayD
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Merry merry England has kissed the lips of JuneE
All the wings of fairyland were here beneath the moonE
Like a flight of rose leaves fluttering in a mistF
Of opal and ruby and pearl and amethystF
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Merry merry England is waking as of oldG
With eyes of blither hazel and hair of brighter goldG
For Robin Hood is here again beneath the bursting sprayD
In Sherwood in Sherwood about the break of dayD
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Love is in the greenwood building him a houseH
Of wild rose and hawthorn and honeysuckle boughsI
Love is in the greenwood dawn is in the skiesJ
And Marian is waiting with a glory in her eyesJ
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Hark The dazzled laverock climbs the golden steepK
Marian is waiting is Robin Hood asleepK
Round the fairy grass rings frolic elf and fayD
In Sherwood in Sherwood about the break of dayD
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Oberon Oberon rake away the goldG
Rake away the red leaves roll away the mouldG
Rake away the gold leaves roll away the redL
And wake Will Scarlett from his leafy forest bedL
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Friar Tuck and Little John are riding down togetherM
With quarter staff and drinking can and grey goose featherM
The dead are coming back again the years are rolled awayD
In Sherwood in Sherwood about the break of dayD
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Softly over Sherwood the south wind blowsN
All the heart of England his in every roseN
Hears across the greenwood the sunny whisper leapK
Sherwood in the red dawn is Robin Hood asleepK
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Hark the voice of England wakes him as of oldG
And shattering the silence with a cry of brighter goldG
Bugles in the greenwood echo from the steepK
Sherwood in the red dawn is Robin Hood asleepK
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Where the deer are gliding down the shadowy glenO
All across the glades of fern he calls his merry menO
Doublets of the Lincoln green glancing through the MayD
In Sherwood in Sherwood about the break of dayD
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Calls them and they answer from aisles of oak and ashP
Rings the Follow Follow and the boughs begin to crashP
The ferns begin to flutter and the flowers begin to flyQ
And through the crimson dawning the robber band goes byQ
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Robin Robin Robin All his merry thievesC
Answer as the bugle note shivers through the leavesC
Calling as he used to call faint and far awayD
In Sherwood in Sherwood about the break of dayD

Alfred Noyes



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