The Giant Puff-ball Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIK DLCL MNMN| From what sad star I know not but I found | A |
| Myself new born below the coppice rail | B |
| No bigger than the dewdrops and as round | A |
| In a soft sward no cattle might assail | B |
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| And so I gathered mightiness and grew | C |
| With this one dream kindling in me that I | D |
| Should never cease from conquering light and dew | C |
| Till my white splendour touched the trembling sky | D |
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| A century of blue and stilly light | E |
| Bowed down before me the dew came again | F |
| The moon my sibyl worshipped through the night | E |
| The sun returned and long abode but then | F |
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| Hoarse drooping darkness hung me with a shroud | G |
| And switched at me with shrivelled leaves in scorn | H |
| Red morning stole beneath a grinning cloud | G |
| And suddenly clambering over dike and thorn | H |
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| A half moon host of churls with flags and sticks | I |
| Hallooed and hurtled up the partridge brood | J |
| And Death clapped hands from all the echoing thicks | I |
| And trampling envy spied me where I stood | K |
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| Who haled me tired and quaking hid me by | D |
| And came again after an age of cold | L |
| And hung me in the prison house adry | C |
| From the great crossbeam Here defiled and old | L |
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| I perish through unnumbered hours I swoon | M |
| Hacked with harsh knives to staunch a child's torn hand | N |
| And all my hopes must with my body soon | M |
| Be but as crouching dust and wind blown sand | N |
Edmund Blunden
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