The Invitation: To Tom Hughes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEBECFGFHIFIAFFF BJKJLKMFBFFFNOPOFQFQ CRSRTUVUCWXWWBBBFWQY WOFZBRQRWA2WA2YB2CB2 FFCFWC2WC2XWHWAXXXAX FXFWD2WQFHFWCWC F| Come away with me Tom | A |
| Term and talk are done | B |
| My poor lads are reaping | C |
| Busy every one | B |
| Curates mind the parish | D |
| Sweepers mind the court | E |
| We'll away to Snowdon | B |
| For our ten days' sport | E |
| Fish the August evening | C |
| Till the eve is past | F |
| Whoop like boys at pounders | G |
| Fairly played and grassed | F |
| When they cease to dimple | H |
| Lunge and swerve and leap | I |
| Then up over Siabod | F |
| Choose our nest and sleep | I |
| Up a thousand feet Tom | A |
| Round the lion's head | F |
| Find soft stones to leeward | F |
| And make up our bed | F |
| Eat our bread and bacon | B |
| Smoke the pipe of peace | J |
| And ere we be drowsy | K |
| Give our boots a grease | J |
| Homer's heroes did so | L |
| Why not such as we | K |
| What are sheets and servants | M |
| Superfluity | F |
| Pray for wives and children | B |
| Safe in slumber curled | F |
| Then to chat till midnight | F |
| O'er this babbling world | F |
| Of the workmen's college | N |
| Of the price of grain | O |
| Of the tree of knowledge | P |
| Of the chance of rain | O |
| If Sir A goes Romeward | F |
| If Miss B sings true | Q |
| If the fleet comes homeward | F |
| If the mare will do | Q |
| Anything and everything | C |
| Up there in the sky | R |
| Angels understand us | S |
| And no 'saints' are by | R |
| Down and bathe at day dawn | T |
| Tramp from lake to lake | U |
| Washing brain and heart clean | V |
| Every step we take | U |
| Leave to Robert Browning | C |
| Beggars fleas and vines | W |
| Leave to mournful Ruskin | X |
| Popish Apennines | W |
| Dirty Stones of Venice | W |
| And his Gas lamps Seven | B |
| We've the stones of Snowdon | B |
| And the lamps of heaven | B |
| Where's the mighty credit | F |
| In admiring Alps | W |
| Any goose sees 'glory' | Q |
| In their 'snowy scalps ' | Y |
| Leave such signs and wonders | W |
| For the dullard brain | O |
| As aesthetic brandy | F |
| Opium and cayenne | Z |
| Give me Bramshill common | B |
| St John's harriers by | R |
| Or the vale of Windsor | Q |
| England's golden eye | R |
| Show me life and progress | W |
| Beauty health and man | A2 |
| Houses fair trim gardens | W |
| Turn where'er I can | A2 |
| Or if bored with 'High Art ' | Y |
| And such popish stuff | B2 |
| One's poor ear need airing | C |
| Snowdon's high enough | B2 |
| While we find God's signet | F |
| Fresh on English ground | F |
| Why go gallivanting | C |
| With the nations round | F |
| Though we try no ventures | W |
| Desperate or strange | C2 |
| Feed on commonplaces | W |
| In a narrow range | C2 |
| Never sought for Franklin | X |
| Round the frozen Capes | W |
| Even with Macdougall | H |
| Bagged our brace of apes | W |
| Never had our chance Tom | A |
| In that black Redan | X |
| Can't avenge poor Brereton | X |
| Out in Sakarran | X |
| Tho' we earn our bread Tom | A |
| By the dirty pen | X |
| What we can we will be | F |
| Honest Englishmen | X |
| Do the work that's nearest | F |
| Though it's dull at whiles | W |
| Helping when we meet them | D2 |
| Lame dogs over stiles | W |
| See in every hedgerow | Q |
| Marks of angels' feet | F |
| Epics in each pebble | H |
| Underneath our feet | F |
| Once a year like schoolboys | W |
| Robin Hooding go | C |
| Leaving fops and fogies | W |
| A thousand feet below | C |
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| Eversley August | F |
Charles Kingsley
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