Morning In Norfolk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKJLMNOPQEQ RQSQBTIUVBWXQIQQXOYQ KBYZOA2B2IRQQC2KBIBB D2D2BIBKE2QRFQF2G2G2 Q H2KQI2QQFQKH2Q| As it has for so long | A |
| come wind and all weather | B |
| the house glimmers among | C |
| the mists of a little | D |
| river that splinters it | E |
| seems a landscape of | F |
| winter dreams In the far | G |
| fields stand a few | H |
| bare trees decorating | I |
| those mists like the fanned | J |
| patterns of Georgian | K |
| skylights The home land | J |
| of any heart persists | L |
| there suffused with | M |
| memories and mists not | N |
| quite concealing the | O |
| identities and lost | P |
| lives of those loved once | Q |
| but loved most They haunt it | E |
| still To the watermeadows | Q |
| that lie by the heart they | R |
| return as do flocks of swallows | Q |
| to the fields they have known | S |
| and flickered and flown so | Q |
| often and so unforgettably over | B |
| What fish | T |
| play in the bright wishing | I |
| wells of your painted | U |
| stretches O secret | V |
| untainted little Bure | B |
| I could easily tell | W |
| for would they not be | X |
| those flashing dashers | Q |
| the sometimes glittering | I |
| presentiments images | Q |
| and idealizations | Q |
| of what had to be | X |
| The dawn has brightened the | O |
| shallows and shadows and | Y |
| the Bure sidles and idles | Q |
| through weed isles and fallen | K |
| willows and under | B |
| Itteringham Mill and | Y |
| there is a kind of rain | Z |
| drenched flittering in the | O |
| air the night swan still | A2 |
| sleeps in her wings and over it all | B2 |
| the dawn heaps up the hanging | I |
| fire of the day | R |
| Fowell's tractor blusters | Q |
| out of its shed and drags | Q |
| a day's work like a piled sled | C2 |
| behind it The crimson | K |
| December morning brims over | B |
| Norfolk turning | I |
| to burning Turner | B |
| this aqueous water colour | B |
| idyll that earlier gleamed | D2 |
| so green that it seemed | D2 |
| drowned What further | B |
| sanction what blessing | I |
| can the man of heart intercede for | B |
| than the supreme remission | K |
| of dawn For then the mind | E2 |
| looking backward upon its | Q |
| too sullied yesterday | R |
| the rotting stack of | F |
| resolution and refuse | Q |
| reads in the rainbowed sky | F2 |
| a greater covenant | G2 |
| the tremendous pronouncement | G2 |
| the day forgives | Q |
| - | |
| Holy the heart in | H2 |
| its proper occupation | K |
| praising and appraising this | Q |
| godsend the dawn | I2 |
| Will you lift up your eyes | Q |
| my blind spirit and see | Q |
| such evidence of | F |
| forgiveness in the heavens | Q |
| morning after golden | K |
| morning than even | H2 |
| the blind can see | Q |
George Barker
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