Week-end Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHGIJIJKL AAMA NIIOEOEPP AQRQRFSFSETETUU VWXVYZH A2B2A2B2C2C2 JD2JD2E2F2E2F2G2 G2 H2H2 HGFGJI2JI2J2CJ2CK2K2 L2M2L2M2N2O2N2O2P2G2 P2G2M2 Q2R2Q2R2CS2CS2N2C2N2 C2G2G2 C T2T2U2V2U2 MCMW2W2 CSV2SX2 M MY2G2IY2G2V2X2

IA
The train The twleve 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 'L
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IIA
The key will stammer and the door replyA
The hall wake yawn and smile the torpid stairM
Will grumble at our feet the table cryA
'Fetch my bolongings for me I am bare '-
A clatter something in the attic fallsN
A ghost has lifted up his robes and fledI
Then silence very slowly lifts his headI
The starling with impatient screech has flownO
The chimney and is watching from the treeE
They thought us gone for ever mouse aloneO
Stops in the middle of the floor to seeE
Now all you idle things resume your toilP
Hearth put your flames on Sulky kettle boilP
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IIIA
Contented evening comfortable joysQ
The snoozing fire and all the fields are stillR
Tranquil delight no purpose and no noiseQ
Unless the slow wind flowing round the hillR
'Murry' the kettle dozes little mouseF
Is rambling prudently about the floorS
There's lovely conversation in this houseF
Words become princes that were slaves beforeS
What a sweet atmosphere for you and meE
The people that have been here left behindT
Oh but I fear it may turn out to beE
Built of a dream erected in the mindT
So if we speak too loud we may awakenU
To find it vanished and ourselves mistakenU
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IV-
Lift up the curtain carefully All the treesV
Stand in the dark like drowsy sentinelsW
The oak is talkative to night he tellsX
The little bushes crowding at his kneesV
That formidable hard voluminousY
History of growth from acord into ageZ
They titter like school children they arouseH
Their comrades who exclaim ' He is very sage '-
Look how the moon is staring through that cloudA2
Laying and lifting idle streaks of lightB2
O hark was that the monstrous wind so loudA2
And sudden prowling always through the nightB2
Let down the shaking curtain They are queerC2
Those foreigners They and we live so nearC2
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V-
Come come to bed The shadows move aboutJ
And some one seems to overhear our talkD2
The fire is low the candles flicker outJ
The ghosts of former tenants want to walkD2
Already they are shuffling through the gloomE2
I felt on old man touch my shoulder bladeF2
Once he was married here they love this roomE2
He and his woman and the child they madeF2
Dead dead they are yet some familiar soundG2
Creeping along the brink of happy life-
Revives their memory from under groundG2
The farmer and his troublesome old wife-
Let us be going as we climb the stairsH2
They'll sit down in our warm half empty chairsH2
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VI-
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 fireI2
Turn the encumbering shadows tumbling outJ
And fill the chambers with a new desireI2
Life is no good unless the morning bringsJ2
White happiness and quick delight of dayC
These half inanamate domestic thingsJ2
Must all be useful or must go awayC
Coffee be fragrant Porridge in my plateK2
Increase the vigour to fulfil my fateK2
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VII-
The fresh air moves like water round a boatL2
The white clouds wander Let us wander tooM2
The whining wavering plover flap and floatL2
That crow is flying after that cuckooM2
Look Look They're gone What are the great trees callingN2
Just come a little farther by that edgeO2
Of green to where the stormy ploughland fallingN2
Wave upon wave is lapping to the hedgeO2
Oh what a lovely bank Give me your handP2
Lie down and press your heart against the groundG2
Let us both listen till we understandP2
Each through the other every natural soundG2
I can't hear anything to day can youM2
But far and near ' Cuckoo Cuckoo Cuckoo '-
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VIII-
The everlasting grass how bright how coolQ2
The day has gone too suddenly too soonR2
There's something white and shiny in that poolQ2
Throw in a stone and you will hit the moonR2
Listen the church bell ringing Do not sayC
We must go back to morrow to our workS2
We'll tell them we are dead we died to dayC
We're lazy We're too happy We will shirkS2
We're cows We're kettles We'll be anythingN2
Except the manikins of time and fearC2
We'll start away to morrow wanderingN2
And nobody will notice in a yearC2
Now the great sun is slipping under groundG2
Grip firmly How the earth is whirling roundG2
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IXC
Be staid be careful and be not too free-
Temptation to enjoy your liberty-
May rise against you break into a crimeT2
And smash the habit of employing TimeT2
It serves no purpose that the careful clockU2
Mark the appointment the officious trainV2
Hurry to keep it if the minutes mockU2
Loud in you ear 'Late Late Late Late again '-
Week end is very well on Saturday-
On Monday it's a different affairM
A little episode a trivial stayC
In some oblivious spot somehow somewhereM
On Sunday night we hardly laugh or speakW2
Week end begins to merges itself in WeekW2
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XC
Pack up the house and close the creaking doorS
The fields are dull this morning in the rainV2
It's difficult to leave that homely floorS
Wave a light hand we will return againX2
What was that bird Good bye ecstatic tree-
Floating bursting and breathing on the airM
The lonely farm is wondering that we-
Can leave How every window seems to stareM
That bag is heavy Share it for a bitY2
You like that gentle swashing of the groundG2
As we treadI
It is over Now we sitY2
Reading the morning paper in the soundG2
Of the debilitating heavy trainV2
London again again London againX2

Harold Monro



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