Ken Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBDECDE FFGGHHHII JKJLLLK MMNOOMN PPQQRRSTPFFPUU VWWVXX YYZZA2WHUWUUUB2B2B2W C2OC2D2YYE2E2FFY F2F2MMThe town is old and very steep | A |
A place of bells and cloisters and grey towers | B |
And black clad people walking in their sleep | A |
A nun a priest a woman taking flowers | B |
To her new grave and watched from end to end | C |
By the great Church above through the still hours | B |
But in the morning and the early dark | D |
The children wake to dart from doors and call | E |
Down the wide crooked street where at the bend | C |
Before it climbs up to the park | D |
Ken's is in the gabled house facing the Castle wall | E |
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When first I came upon him there | F |
Suddenly on the half lit stair | F |
I think I hardly found a trace | G |
Of likeness to a human face | G |
In his And I said then | H |
If in His image God made men | H |
Some other must have made poor Ken | H |
But for his eyes which looked at you | I |
As two red wounded stars might do | I |
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He scarcely spoke you scarcely heard | J |
His voice broke off in little jars | K |
To tears sometimes An uncouth bird | J |
He seemed as he ploughed up the street | L |
Groping with knarred high lifted feet | L |
And arms thrust out as if to beat | L |
Always against a threat of bars | K |
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And oftener than not there'd be | M |
A child just higher than his knee | M |
Trotting beside him Through his dim | N |
Long twilight this at least shone clear | O |
That all the children and the deer | O |
Whom every day he went to see | M |
Out in the park belonged to him | N |
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God help the folk that next him sits | P |
He fidgets so with his poor wits | P |
The neighbours said on Sunday nights | Q |
When he would go to Church to see the lights | Q |
Although for these he used to fix | R |
His eyes upon a crucifix | R |
In a dark corner staring on | S |
Till everybody else had gone | T |
And sometimes in his evil fits | P |
You could not move him from his chair | F |
You did not look at him as he sat there | F |
Biting his rosary to bits | P |
While pointing to the Christ he tried to say | U |
Take it away | U |
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Nothing was dead | V |
He said a bird if he picked up a broken wing | W |
A perished leaf or any such thing | W |
Was just a rose and once when I had said | V |
He must not stand and knock there any more | X |
He left a twig on the mat outside my door | X |
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Not long ago | Y |
The last thrush stiffened in the snow | Y |
While black against a sullen sky | Z |
The sighing pines stood by | Z |
But now the wind has left our rattled pane | A2 |
To flutter the hedge sparrow's wing | W |
The birches in the wood are red again | H |
And only yesterday | U |
The larks went up a little way to sing | W |
What lovers say | U |
Who loiter in the lanes to day | U |
The buds begin to talk of May | U |
With learned rooks on city trees | B2 |
And if God please | B2 |
With all of these | B2 |
We too shall see another Spring | W |
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But in that red brick barn upon the hill | C2 |
I wonder can one own the deer | O |
And does one walk with children still | C2 |
As one did here | D2 |
Do roses grow | Y |
Beneath those twenty windows in a row | Y |
And if some night | E2 |
When you have not seen any light | E2 |
They cannot move you from your chair | F |
What happens there | F |
I do not know | Y |
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So when they took | F2 |
Ken to that place I did not look | F2 |
After he called and turned on me | M |
His eyes These I shall see | M |
Charlotte Mary Mew
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