On The Road To The Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCDDCDC EFGHGICIII AAJKJLKLKDMKDKANNAN OPOP QAARA OSOSTGTG| We passed each other turned and stopped for half an hour then went our way | A |
| I who make other women smile did not make you | B |
| But no man can move mountains in a day | A |
| So this hard thing is yet to do | B |
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| But first I want your life before I die I want to see | C |
| The world that lies behind the strangeness of your eyes | D |
| There is nothing gay or green there for my gathering it may be | C |
| Yet on brown fields there lies | D |
| A haunting purple bloom is there not something in grey skies | D |
| And in grey sea | C |
| I want what world there is behind your eyes | D |
| I want your life and you will not give it me | C |
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| Now if I look I see you walking down the years | E |
| Young and through August fields a face a thought a swinging dream | F |
| perched on a stile | G |
| I would have liked so vile we are to have taught you tears | H |
| But most to have made you smile | G |
| To day is not enough or yesterday God sees it all | I |
| Your length on sunny lawns the wakeful rainy nights tell me | C |
| how vain to ask but it is not a question just a call | I |
| Show me then only your notched inches climbing up the garden wall | I |
| I like you best when you are small | I |
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| Is this a stupid thing to say | A |
| Not having spent with you one day | A |
| No matter I shall never touch your hair | J |
| Or hear the little tick behind your breast | K |
| Still it is there | J |
| And as a flying bird | L |
| Brushes the branches where it may not rest | K |
| I have brushed your hand and heard | L |
| The child in you I like that best | K |
| So small so dark so sweet and were you also then too grave and wise | D |
| Always I think Then put your far off little hand in mine | M |
| Oh let it rest | K |
| I will not stare into the early world beyond the opening eyes | D |
| Or vex or scare what I love best | K |
| But I want your life before mine bleeds away | A |
| Here not in heavenly hereafters soon | N |
| I want your smile this very afternoon | N |
| The last of all my vices pleasant people used to say | A |
| I wanted and I sometimes got the Moon | N |
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| You know at dusk the last bird's cry | O |
| And round the house the flap of the bat's low flight | P |
| Trees that go black against the sky | O |
| And then how soon the night | P |
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| No shadow of you on any bright road again | Q |
| And at the darkening end of this what voice whose kiss As if you'd say | A |
| It is not I who have walked with you it will not be I who take away | A |
| Peace peace my little handful of the gleaner's grain | R |
| From your reaped fields at the shut of day | A |
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| Peace Would you not rather die | O |
| Reeling with all the cannons at your ear | S |
| So at least would I | O |
| And I may not be here | S |
| To night to morrow morning or next year | T |
| Still I will let you keep your life a little while | G |
| See dear | T |
| I have made you smile | G |
Charlotte Mary Mew
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