Unknown Country Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEE FFGGHHIIJJKK LLMMNNOOPPNN QQRRSSNNL TTNNNNQQUUVVWW| Here in this other world they come and go | A |
| With easy dream like movements to and fro | A |
| They stare through lovely eyes yet do not seek | B |
| An answering gaze or that a man should speak | B |
| Had I a load of gold and should I come | C |
| Bribing their friendship and to buy a home | D |
| They would stare harder and would slightly frown | E |
| I am a stranger from the distant town | E |
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| Oh with what patience I have tried to win | F |
| The favour of the hostess of the Inn | F |
| Have I not offered toast on frothing toast | G |
| Looking toward the melancholy host | G |
| Praised the old wall eyed mare to please the groom | H |
| Laughed to the laughing maid and fetched her broom | H |
| Stood in the background not to interfere | I |
| When the cool ancients frolicked at their beer | I |
| Talked only in my turn and made no claim | J |
| For recognition or by voice or name | J |
| Content to listen and to watch the blue | K |
| Or grey of eyes or what good hands can do | K |
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| Sun freckled lads who at the dusk of day | L |
| Stroll through the village with a scent of hay | L |
| Clinging about you from the windy hill | M |
| Why do you keep your secret from me still | M |
| You loiter at the corner of the street | N |
| I in the distance silently entreat | N |
| I know too well I'm city soiled but then | O |
| So are today ten million other men | O |
| My heart is true I've neither will nor charms | P |
| To lure away your maidens from your arms | P |
| Trust me a little Must I always stand | N |
| Lonely a stranger from an unknown land | N |
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| There is a riddle here Though I'm more wise | Q |
| Than you I cannot read your simple eyes | Q |
| I find the meaning of their gentle look | R |
| More difficult than any learned book | R |
| I pass perhaps a moment you may chaff | S |
| My walk and so dismiss me with a laugh | S |
| I come you all most grave and most polite | N |
| Stand silent first then wish me calm Good Night | N |
| When I go back to town some one will say | L |
| 'I think that stranger must have gone away ' | - |
| And 'Surely ' some one else will then reply | T |
| Meanwhile within the dark of London I | T |
| Shall with my forehead resting on my hand | N |
| Not cease remembering your distant land | N |
| Endeavouring to reconstruct aright | N |
| How some treed hill has looked in evening light | N |
| Or be imagining the blue of skies | Q |
| Now as in heaven now as in your eyes | Q |
| Or in my mind confusing looks or words | U |
| Of yours with dawnlight or the song of birds | U |
| Not able to resist not even keep | V |
| Myself from hovering near you in my sleep | V |
| You still as callous to my thought and me | W |
| As flowers to the purpose of the bee | W |
Harold Edward Monro
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