Edlesborough Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE EFGHI JKILM JNGMO PQRSS JTURR| Beyond the Chiltern coast this church | A |
| A lighthouse in dry seas of standing corn | B |
| Bees hive in the tower the outer stone | C |
| Pared and frittered in sunlight flakes with the years | D |
| Clunch crumbles but silence exaltation endures | E |
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| The brass robed Rector stretched on his tomb endures | E |
| Within we go upon the dragon and the bat | F |
| Walk above the world without | G |
| Uplifted among grey lavender beech and sycamore | H |
| Shades of the sea born chalk indelible and austere | I |
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| If we see history from this hill | J |
| It is upon its own conditions here | K |
| Each season swirls and eddies the circle of a year | I |
| Round the spectator church and human eyes | L |
| Take on its plinth a long focus of centuries | M |
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| We seem like gods on any hill | J |
| From here all toil resembles rest and yet | N |
| Unlike a god we feel ourselves shut out | G |
| Surely that farm in a carved blue curve of trees | M |
| So still with all its creatures holds the unattainable peace | O |
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| It is Time's camouflage deceives us | P |
| There it extends like space whatever moves | Q |
| A horse to drink a reaper to stack the sheaves | R |
| Displays the movement in its whole succession | S |
| Not a change of terms only a changed relation | S |
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| Deceit or truth The dead possess the hill | J |
| In battlements of Totternhoe or slate | T |
| The view is ours the range and ache of sight | U |
| If Time serves in a common space unrolls | R |
| This Resurrection field with sheaves in glory like risen souls | R |
Anne Barbara Ridler
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