At Senlis Once Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABA CCDE BBFB GGBG| how comely it was and how reviving | A |
| When with clay and with death no longer striving | A |
| Down firm roads we came to houses | B |
| With women chattering and green grass thriving | A |
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| Now though rains in a cataract descended | C |
| We could glow with our tribulation ended | C |
| Count not days the present only | D |
| Was thought of how could it ever be expended | E |
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| Clad so cleanly this remnant of poor wretches | B |
| Picked up life like the hens in orchard ditches | B |
| Gazed on the mill sails heard the church bell | F |
| Found an honest glass all manner of riches | B |
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| How they crowded the barn with lusty laughter | G |
| Hailed the pierrots and shook each shadowy rafter | G |
| Even could ridicule their own sufferings | B |
| Sang as though nothing but joy came after | G |
Edmund Blunden
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