A Midsummer Holiday:- Iii. On A Country Road Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCCDDDDBDBBDDDDD DBDBBDDDDDDDDDD| Along these low pleached lanes on such a day | A |
| So soft a day as this through shade and sun | B |
| With glad grave eyes that scanned the glad wild way | A |
| And heart still hovering o'er a song begun | B |
| And smile that warmed the world with benison | B |
| Our father lord long since of lordly rhyme | C |
| Long since hath haply ridden when the lime | C |
| Bloomed broad above him flowering where he came | D |
| Because thy passage once made warm this clime | D |
| Our father Chaucer here we praise thy name | D |
| Each year that England clothes herself with May | D |
| She takes thy likeness on her Time hath spun | B |
| Fresh raiment all in vain and strange array | D |
| For earth and man's new spirit fain to shun | B |
| Things past for dreams of better to be won | B |
| Through many a century since thy funeral chime | D |
| Rang and men deemed it death's most direful crime | D |
| To have spared not thee for very love or shame | D |
| And yet while mists round last year's memories climb | D |
| Our father Chaucer here we praise thy name | D |
| Each turn of the old wild road whereon we stray | D |
| Meseems might bring us face to face with one | B |
| Whom seeing we could not but give thanks and pray | D |
| For England's love our father and her son | B |
| To speak with us as once in days long done | B |
| With all men sage and churl and monk and mime | D |
| Who knew not as we know the soul sublime | D |
| That sang for song's love more than lust of fame | D |
| Yet though this be not yet in happy time | D |
| Our father Chaucer here we praise thy name | D |
| Friend even as bees about the flowering thyme | D |
| Years crowd on years till hoar decay begrime | D |
| Names once beloved but seeing the sun the same | D |
| As birds of autumn fain to praise the prime | D |
| Our father Chaucer here we praise thy name | D |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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