Week-end Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHGIJIJK A ALA MIMINENEOO A PQPQFRFRESESTT UVWUXYH ZA2ZA2B2B2 JC2JC2D2E2D2E2F2 F2 G2G2 HGFGJH2JH2I2CI2CJ2J2 K2L2K2L2M2N2M2N2O2F2 O2F2L2 P2Q2P2Q2CR2CR2M2B2M2 B2F2F2 C S2S2T2U2T2 LCLV2V2 C RU2RW2 L LX2F2IX2F2U2W2

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The train The twelve o'clock for paradiseB
Hurry or it will try to creep awayC
Out in the country every one is wiseD
We can be only wise on SaturdayE
There you are waiting little friendly houseF
Those are your chimney stacks with you betweenG
Surrounded by old trees and strolling cowsH
Staring through all your windows at the greenG
Your homely floor is creaking for our treadI
The smiling tea pot with contented spoutJ
Thinks of the boiling water and the breadI
Longs for the butter All their hands are outJ
To greet us and the gentle blankets seemK
Purring and crooning 'Lie in us and dream '-
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The key will stammer and the door replyA
The hall wake yawn and smile the torpid stairL
Will grumble at our feet the table cryA
'Fetch my belongings for me I am bare '-
A clatter Something in the attic fallsM
A ghost has lifted up his robes and fledI
The loitering shadows move along the wallsM
Then silence very slowly lifts his headI
The starling with impatient screech has flownN
The chimney and is watching from the treeE
They thought us gone for ever mouse aloneN
Stops in the middle of the floor to seeE
Now all you idle things resume your toilO
Hearth put your flames on Sulky kettle boilO
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Contented evening comfortable joysP
The snoozing fire and all the fields are stillQ
Tranquil delight no purpose and no noiseP
Unless the slow wind flowing round the hillQ
'Murry' the kettle dozes little mouseF
Is rambling prudently about the floorR
There's lovely conversation in this houseF
Words become princes that were slaves beforeR
What a sweet atmosphere for you and meE
The people that have been here left behindS
Oh but I fear it may turn out to beE
Built of a dream erected in the mindS
So if we speak too loud we may awakenT
To find it vanished and ourselves mistakenT
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Lift up the curtain carefully All the treesU
Stand in the dark like drowsy sentinelsV
The oak is talkative to night he tellsW
The little bushes crowding at his kneesU
That formidable hard voluminousX
History of growth from acorn into ageY
They titter like school children they arouseH
Their comrades who exclaim 'He is very sage '-
Look how the moon is staring through that cloudZ
Laying and lifting idle streaks of lightA2
O hark was that the monstrous wind so loudZ
And sudden prowling always through the nightA2
Let down the shaking curtain They are queerB2
Those foreigners They and we live so nearB2
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Come come to bed The shadows move aboutJ
And some one seems to overhear our talkC2
The fire is low the candles flicker outJ
The ghosts of former tenants want to walkC2
Already they are shuffling through the gloomD2
I felt an old man touch my shoulder bladeE2
Once he was married here they love this roomD2
He and his woman and the child they madeE2
Dead dead they are yet some familiar soundF2
Creeping along the brink of happy life-
Revives their memory from under groundF2
The farmer and his troublesome old wife-
Let us be going as we climb the stairsG2
They'll sit down in our warm half empty chairsG2
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Morning Wake up Awaken All the boughsH
Are rippling on the air across the greenG
The youngest birds are singing to the houseF
Blood of the world and is the country cleanG
Disturb the precinct Cool it with a shoutJ
Sing as you trundle down to light the fireH2
Turn the encumbering shadows tumbling outJ
And fill the chambers with a new desireH2
Life is no good unless the morning bringsI2
White happiness and quick delight of dayC
These half inanimate domestic thingsI2
Must all be useful or must go awayC
Coffee be fragrant Porridge in my plateJ2
Increase the vigour to fulfil my fateJ2
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The fresh air moves like water round a boatK2
The white clouds wander Let us wander tooL2
The whining wavering plover flap and floatK2
That crow is flying after that cuckooL2
Look Look They're gone What are the great trees callingM2
Just come a little farther by that edgeN2
Of green to where the stormy ploughland fallingM2
Wave upon wave is lapping to the hedgeN2
Oh what a lovely bank Give me your handO2
Lie down and press your heart against the groundF2
Let us both listen till we understandO2
Each through the other every natural soundF2
I can't hear anything to day can youL2
But far and near 'Cuckoo Cuckoo Cuckoo '-
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The everlasting grass how bright how coolP2
The day has gone too suddenly too soonQ2
There's something white and shiny in that poolP2
Throw in a stone and you will hit the moonQ2
Listen the church bell ringing Do not sayC
We must go back to morrow to our workR2
We'll tell them we are dead we died to dayC
We're lazy We're too happy We will shirkR2
We're cows We're kettles We'll be anythingM2
Except the manikins of time and fearB2
We'll start away to morrow wanderingM2
And nobody will notice in a yearB2
Now the great sun is slipping under groundF2
Grip firmly How the earth is whirling roundF2
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Be staid be careful and be not too free-
Temptation to enjoy your liberty-
May rise against you break into a crimeS2
And smash the habit of employing TimeS2
It serves no purpose that the careful clockT2
Mark the appointment the officious trainU2
Hurry to keep it if the minutes mockT2
Loud in your ear 'Late Late Late Late again '-
Week end is very well on Saturday-
On Monday it's a different affairL
A little episode a trivial stayC
In some oblivious spot somehow somewhereL
On Sunday night we hardly laugh or speakV2
Week end begins to merge itself in WeekV2
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Pack up the house and close the creaking doorR
The fields are dull this morning in the rainU2
It's difficult to leave that homely floorR
Wave a light hand we will return againW2
What was that bird Good bye ecstatic tree-
Floating bursting and breathing on the airL
The lonely farm is wondering that we-
Can leave How every window seems to stareL
That bag is heavy Share it for a bitX2
You like that gentle swashing of the groundF2
As we treadI
It is over Now we sitX2
Reading the morning paper in the soundF2
Of the debilitating heavy trainU2
London again again London againW2

Harold Edward Monro



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