In The Cathedral Close Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKJK LMEM NJOB PQRS TUVU KWXW YRKR KZA2Z| IN the Dean's porch a nest of clay | A |
| With five small tentants may be seen | B |
| Five solemn faces each as wise | C |
| As if its owner were a Dean | B |
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| Five downy fledglings in a row | D |
| Packed close as in the antique pew | E |
| The school girls are whose foreheads clear | F |
| At the Venite shine on you | E |
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| Day after day the swallows sit | G |
| With scarce a stir with scarce a sound | H |
| But dreaming and digesting much | I |
| They grow thus wise and soft and round | H |
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| They watch the Canons come to dine | J |
| And hear the mullion bars across | K |
| Over the fragrant fruit and wine | J |
| Deep talk of rood screen and reredos | K |
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| Her hands with field flowers drenched a child | L |
| Leaps past in wind blown dress and hair | M |
| The swallows turn their heads askew | E |
| Five judges deem that she is fair | M |
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| Prelusive touches sound within | N |
| Straightway they recognise the sign | J |
| And blandly nodding they approve | O |
| The minuet of Rubinstein | B |
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| They mark the cousins' schoolboy talk | P |
| Male birds flown wide from minster bell | Q |
| And blink at each broad term of art | R |
| Binomial or bicycle | S |
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| Ah downy soft ones soft and warm | T |
| Doth such a stillness mask from sight | U |
| Such swiftness can such peace conceal | V |
| Passion and ecstasy of flight | U |
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| Yet somewhere 'mid your Easter suns | K |
| Under a white Greek architrave | W |
| At morn or when the shaft of fire | X |
| Lies large upon the Indian wave | W |
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| A sense of something dear gone by | Y |
| Will stir strange longings thrill the heart | R |
| For a small world embowered close | K |
| Of which ye sometime were a part | R |
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| The dew drenched flowers the child's glad eyes | K |
| Your joy inhuman shall control | Z |
| And in your wings a light and wind | A2 |
| Shall move from the Maestro's soul | Z |
Edward Dowden
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