Sherwood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGDD HIJJ KKDD GGLL MMDD NNKK GGKK OODD PPQQ CCDDSherwood in the twilight is Robin Hood awake | A |
Grey and ghostly 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 it 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 hid 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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