Now Would I Be Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFDGHGH IJIJ KBLBDDDD MNONN| Now would I be in that remov d place | A |
| Where the dim sunlight hardly comes at all | B |
| And branches of the young trees interlace | A |
| And long swathes of the brambles twine and fall | B |
| A space between the hedgerow and a road | C |
| Not trod by foot of any known to me | D |
| Where now and then a cart with scented load | C |
| Goes sleepy down the lane with creaking axle tree | D |
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| And there I'd lie upon the tumbled leaves | E |
| Watching a square of the all else hidden sky | F |
| And made such songs a drowsy mind believes | E |
| To be most perfect music So would I | F |
| Keep my face heavenwards and bless eternity | D |
| Wherein my heart could be as glad as this | G |
| And lazily I'd bid all men come hither | H |
| And in my dreams I'd tell them what they miss | G |
| Living in hate and work and all foul weather | H |
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| And still my happy dreams would go | I |
| Like children in a cowslip field | J |
| Chasing rich winged insects to and fro | I |
| To see what rare delights they yield | J |
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| O I am tired of working to be cheated | K |
| And sick of barriers that will not fall | B |
| Of ancient prudent words too much repeated | L |
| And worn out dreams that come not true at all | B |
| I know too well what things they are that ail me | D |
| To fight is nothing but to see | D |
| Thus at the last my own hand fail me | D |
| Is agony | D |
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| O for that corner by the hummocked marshes | M |
| Visited hardly by the cynic sun | N |
| Where nothing clear and nothing bright or harsh is | O |
| Where labour and the ache of it are done | N |
| Where naught is ended and where naught begun | N |
Edward Shanks
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