Willaloo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBBCDDDCDCCCC CCCEFEEFGGCCCFCFF BBBHIHHJKKLLKKKKLLL MMMMFFKKNNMMMKKFKFFF FFBy E A P | A |
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In the sad and sodden street | B |
To and fro | C |
Flit the fever stricken feet | B |
Of the freshers as they meet | B |
Come and go | C |
Ever buying buying buying | D |
Where the shopmen stand supplying | D |
Vying vying | D |
All they know | C |
While the Autumn lies a dying | D |
Sad and low | C |
As the price of summer suitings when the winter breezes blow | C |
Of the summer summer suitings that are standing in a row | C |
On the way to Jericho | C |
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See the freshers as they row | C |
To and fro | C |
Up and down the Lower River for an afternoon or so | C |
For the deft manipulation | E |
Of the never resting oar | F |
Though it lead to approbation | E |
Will induce excoriation | E |
They are infinitely sore | F |
Keeping time time time | G |
In a sort of Runic rhyme | G |
Up and down the way to Iffley in an afternoon or so | C |
Which is slow | C |
Do they blow | C |
'Tis the wind and nothing more | F |
'Tis the wind that in Vacation has a tendency to go | C |
But the coach's objurgation and his tendency to 'score' | F |
Will be sated nevermore | F |
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See the freshers in the street | B |
The elite | B |
Their apparel how unquestionably neat | B |
How delighted at a distance | H |
Inexpensively attired | I |
I have wondered with persistence | H |
At their butterfly existence | H |
How admired | J |
And the payment O the payment | K |
It is tardy for the raiment | K |
Yet the haberdasher gloats as he sells | L |
And he tells | L |
'This is best | K |
To be dress'd | K |
Rather better than the rest | K |
To be noticeably drest | K |
To be swells | L |
To be swells swells swells swells | L |
Swells swells swells | L |
To be simply and indisputably swells ' | - |
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See the freshers one or two | M |
Just a few | M |
Now on view | M |
Who are sensibly and innocently new | M |
How they cluster cluster cluster | F |
Round the rugged walls of Worcester | F |
See them stand | K |
Book in hand | K |
In the garden ground of John's | N |
How they dote upon their Dons | N |
See in every man a Blue | M |
It is true | M |
They are lamentably few | M |
But I spied | K |
Yesternight upon the staircase just a pair of boots outside | K |
Upon the floor | F |
Just a little pair of boots upon the stairs where I reside | K |
Lying there and nothing more | F |
And I swore | F |
While these dainty twins continued sentry by the chamber door | F |
That the hope their presence planted should be with me evermore | F |
Should desert me nevermore | F |
Arthur Thomas Quiller-couch
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