Forefathers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFG HIHIJJ DDDDHH HKHKDD LHLHMM| Here they went with smock and crook | A |
| Toiled in the sun lolled in the shade | B |
| Here they mudded out the brook | A |
| And here their hatchet cleared the glade | B |
| Harvest supper woke their wit | C |
| Huntsmen's moon their wooings lit | C |
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| From this church they led their brides | D |
| From this church themselves were led | E |
| Shoulder high on these waysides | D |
| Sat to take their beer and bread | E |
| Names are gone what men they were | F |
| These their cottages declare | G |
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| Names are vanished save the few | H |
| In the old brown Bible scrawled | I |
| These were men of pith and thew | H |
| Whom the city never called | I |
| Scarce could read or hold a quill | J |
| Built the barn the forge the mill | J |
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| On the green they watched their sons | D |
| Playing till too dark to see | D |
| As their fathers watched them once | D |
| As my father once watched me | D |
| While the bat and beetle flew | H |
| On the warm air webbed with dew | H |
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| Unrecorded unrenowned | H |
| Men from whom my ways begin | K |
| Here I know you by your ground | H |
| But I know you not within | K |
| There is silence there survives | D |
| Not a moment of your lives | D |
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| Like the bee that now is blown | L |
| Honey heavy on my hand | H |
| From his toppling tansy throne | L |
| In the green tempestuous land | H |
| I'm in clover now nor know | M |
| Who made honey long ago | M |
Edmund Blunden
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