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 MY2G2IY2G2V2X2I | A |
The train The twleve o'clock for paradise | B |
Hurry or it will try to creep away | C |
Out in the country every one is wise | D |
We can be only wise on Saturday | E |
There you are waiting little friendly house | F |
Those are your chimney stacks with you between | G |
Surrounded by old trees and strolling cows | H |
Staring through all your windows at the green | G |
Your homely floor is creaking for our tread | I |
The smiling tea pot with contented spout | J |
Thinks of the boiling water and the bread | I |
Longs for the butter All their hands are out | J |
To greet us and the gentle blankets seem | K |
Purring and crooning 'Lie in us and dream ' | L |
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II | A |
The key will stammer and the door reply | A |
The hall wake yawn and smile the torpid stair | M |
Will grumble at our feet the table cry | A |
'Fetch my bolongings for me I am bare ' | - |
A clatter something in the attic falls | N |
A ghost has lifted up his robes and fled | I |
Then silence very slowly lifts his head | I |
The starling with impatient screech has flown | O |
The chimney and is watching from the tree | E |
They thought us gone for ever mouse alone | O |
Stops in the middle of the floor to see | E |
Now all you idle things resume your toil | P |
Hearth put your flames on Sulky kettle boil | P |
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III | A |
Contented evening comfortable joys | Q |
The snoozing fire and all the fields are still | R |
Tranquil delight no purpose and no noise | Q |
Unless the slow wind flowing round the hill | R |
'Murry' the kettle dozes little mouse | F |
Is rambling prudently about the floor | S |
There's lovely conversation in this house | F |
Words become princes that were slaves before | S |
What a sweet atmosphere for you and me | E |
The people that have been here left behind | T |
Oh but I fear it may turn out to be | E |
Built of a dream erected in the mind | T |
So if we speak too loud we may awaken | U |
To find it vanished and ourselves mistaken | U |
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IV | - |
Lift up the curtain carefully All the trees | V |
Stand in the dark like drowsy sentinels | W |
The oak is talkative to night he tells | X |
The little bushes crowding at his knees | V |
That formidable hard voluminous | Y |
History of growth from acord into age | Z |
They titter like school children they arouse | H |
Their comrades who exclaim ' He is very sage ' | - |
Look how the moon is staring through that cloud | A2 |
Laying and lifting idle streaks of light | B2 |
O hark was that the monstrous wind so loud | A2 |
And sudden prowling always through the night | B2 |
Let down the shaking curtain They are queer | C2 |
Those foreigners They and we live so near | C2 |
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V | - |
Come come to bed The shadows move about | J |
And some one seems to overhear our talk | D2 |
The fire is low the candles flicker out | J |
The ghosts of former tenants want to walk | D2 |
Already they are shuffling through the gloom | E2 |
I felt on old man touch my shoulder blade | F2 |
Once he was married here they love this room | E2 |
He and his woman and the child they made | F2 |
Dead dead they are yet some familiar sound | G2 |
Creeping along the brink of happy life | - |
Revives their memory from under ground | G2 |
The farmer and his troublesome old wife | - |
Let us be going as we climb the stairs | H2 |
They'll sit down in our warm half empty chairs | H2 |
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VI | - |
Morning Wake up Awaken All the boughs | H |
Are rippling on the air across the green | G |
The youngest birds are singing to the house | F |
Blood of the world and is the country clean | G |
Disturb the precinct Cool it with a shout | J |
Sing as you trundle down to light the fire | I2 |
Turn the encumbering shadows tumbling out | J |
And fill the chambers with a new desire | I2 |
Life is no good unless the morning brings | J2 |
White happiness and quick delight of day | C |
These half inanamate domestic things | J2 |
Must all be useful or must go away | C |
Coffee be fragrant Porridge in my plate | K2 |
Increase the vigour to fulfil my fate | K2 |
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VII | - |
The fresh air moves like water round a boat | L2 |
The white clouds wander Let us wander too | M2 |
The whining wavering plover flap and float | L2 |
That crow is flying after that cuckoo | M2 |
Look Look They're gone What are the great trees calling | N2 |
Just come a little farther by that edge | O2 |
Of green to where the stormy ploughland falling | N2 |
Wave upon wave is lapping to the hedge | O2 |
Oh what a lovely bank Give me your hand | P2 |
Lie down and press your heart against the ground | G2 |
Let us both listen till we understand | P2 |
Each through the other every natural sound | G2 |
I can't hear anything to day can you | M2 |
But far and near ' Cuckoo Cuckoo Cuckoo ' | - |
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VIII | - |
The everlasting grass how bright how cool | Q2 |
The day has gone too suddenly too soon | R2 |
There's something white and shiny in that pool | Q2 |
Throw in a stone and you will hit the moon | R2 |
Listen the church bell ringing Do not say | C |
We must go back to morrow to our work | S2 |
We'll tell them we are dead we died to day | C |
We're lazy We're too happy We will shirk | S2 |
We're cows We're kettles We'll be anything | N2 |
Except the manikins of time and fear | C2 |
We'll start away to morrow wandering | N2 |
And nobody will notice in a year | C2 |
Now the great sun is slipping under ground | G2 |
Grip firmly How the earth is whirling round | G2 |
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IX | C |
Be staid be careful and be not too free | - |
Temptation to enjoy your liberty | - |
May rise against you break into a crime | T2 |
And smash the habit of employing Time | T2 |
It serves no purpose that the careful clock | U2 |
Mark the appointment the officious train | V2 |
Hurry to keep it if the minutes mock | U2 |
Loud in you ear 'Late Late Late Late again ' | - |
Week end is very well on Saturday | - |
On Monday it's a different affair | M |
A little episode a trivial stay | C |
In some oblivious spot somehow somewhere | M |
On Sunday night we hardly laugh or speak | W2 |
Week end begins to merges itself in Week | W2 |
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X | C |
Pack up the house and close the creaking door | S |
The fields are dull this morning in the rain | V2 |
It's difficult to leave that homely floor | S |
Wave a light hand we will return again | X2 |
What was that bird Good bye ecstatic tree | - |
Floating bursting and breathing on the air | M |
The lonely farm is wondering that we | - |
Can leave How every window seems to stare | M |
That bag is heavy Share it for a bit | Y2 |
You like that gentle swashing of the ground | G2 |
As we tread | I |
It is over Now we sit | Y2 |
Reading the morning paper in the sound | G2 |
Of the debilitating heavy train | V2 |
London again again London again | X2 |
Harold Monro
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