Ken Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBDECDE FFGGHHHII JKJLLLK MMNOOMN PPQQRRSTPFFPUU VWWVXX YYZZA2WHUWUUUB2B2B2W C2OC2D2YYE2E2FFY F2F2MM

The town is old and very steepA
A place of bells and cloisters and grey towersB
And black clad people walking in their sleepA
A nun a priest a woman taking flowersB
To her new grave and watched from end to endC
By the great Church above through the still hoursB
But in the morning and the early darkD
The children wake to dart from doors and callE
Down the wide crooked street where at the bendC
Before it climbs up to the parkD
Ken's is in the gabled house facing the Castle wallE
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When first I came upon him thereF
Suddenly on the half lit stairF
I think I hardly found a traceG
Of likeness to a human faceG
In his And I said thenH
If in His image God made menH
Some other must have made poor KenH
But for his eyes which looked at youI
As two red wounded stars might doI
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He scarcely spoke you scarcely heardJ
His voice broke off in little jarsK
To tears sometimes An uncouth birdJ
He seemed as he ploughed up the streetL
Groping with knarred high lifted feetL
And arms thrust out as if to beatL
Always against a threat of barsK
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And oftener than not there'd beM
A child just higher than his kneeM
Trotting beside him Through his dimN
Long twilight this at least shone clearO
That all the children and the deerO
Whom every day he went to seeM
Out in the park belonged to himN
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God help the folk that next him sitsP
He fidgets so with his poor witsP
The neighbours said on Sunday nightsQ
When he would go to Church to see the lightsQ
Although for these he used to fixR
His eyes upon a crucifixR
In a dark corner staring onS
Till everybody else had goneT
And sometimes in his evil fitsP
You could not move him from his chairF
You did not look at him as he sat thereF
Biting his rosary to bitsP
While pointing to the Christ he tried to sayU
Take it awayU
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Nothing was deadV
He said a bird if he picked up a broken wingW
A perished leaf or any such thingW
Was just a rose and once when I had saidV
He must not stand and knock there any moreX
He left a twig on the mat outside my doorX
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Not long agoY
The last thrush stiffened in the snowY
While black against a sullen skyZ
The sighing pines stood byZ
But now the wind has left our rattled paneA2
To flutter the hedge sparrow's wingW
The birches in the wood are red againH
And only yesterdayU
The larks went up a little way to singW
What lovers sayU
Who loiter in the lanes to dayU
The buds begin to talk of MayU
With learned rooks on city treesB2
And if God pleaseB2
With all of theseB2
We too shall see another SpringW
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But in that red brick barn upon the hillC2
I wonder can one own the deerO
And does one walk with children stillC2
As one did hereD2
Do roses growY
Beneath those twenty windows in a rowY
And if some nightE2
When you have not seen any lightE2
They cannot move you from your chairF
What happens thereF
I do not knowY
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So when they tookF2
Ken to that place I did not lookF2
After he called and turned on meM
His eyes These I shall seeM

Charlotte Mary Mew



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