Edward Shanks

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Now Would I Be Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFDGHGH IJIJ KBLBDDDD MNONN

Now would I be in that remov d placeA
Where the dim sunlight hardly comes at allB
And branches of the young trees interlaceA
And long swathes of the brambles twine and fallB
A space between the hedgerow and a roadC
Not trod by foot of any known to meD
Where now and then a cart with scented loadC
Goes sleepy down the lane with creaking axle treeD
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And there I'd lie upon the tumbled leavesE
Watching a square of the all else hidden skyF
And made such songs a drowsy mind believesE
To be most perfect music So would IF
Keep my face heavenwards and bless eternityD
Wherein my heart could be as glad as thisG
And lazily I'd bid all men come hitherH
And in my dreams I'd tell them what they missG
Living in hate and work and all foul weatherH
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And still my happy dreams would goI
Like children in a cowslip fieldJ
Chasing rich winged insects to and froI
To see what rare delights they yieldJ
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O I am tired of working to be cheatedK
And sick of barriers that will not fallB
Of ancient prudent words too much repeatedL
And worn out dreams that come not true at allB
I know too well what things they are that ail meD
To fight is nothing but to seeD
Thus at the last my own hand fail meD
Is agonyD
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O for that corner by the hummocked marshesM
Visited hardly by the cynic sunN
Where nothing clear and nothing bright or harsh isO
Where labour and the ache of it are doneN
Where naught is ended and where naught begunN

Edward Shanks



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