To Helen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDCDD CEECC FGGFGAfter seeing her bowl with her usual success | A |
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St Leonard's Hall | B |
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Helen thy bowling is to me | C |
Like that wise Alfred Shaw's of yore | D |
Which gently broke the wickets three | C |
From Alfred few could smack a four | D |
Most difficult to score | D |
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The music of the moaning sea | C |
The rattle of the flying bails | E |
The grey sad spires the tawny sails | E |
What memories they bring to me | C |
Beholding thee | C |
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Upon our old monastic pitch | F |
How sportsmanlike I see thee stand | G |
The leather in thy lily hand | G |
Oh Helen of the yorkers which | F |
Are nobly planned | G |
Andrew Lang
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