Under The Figtree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFFGEHHIIJJKL EEGE| Like drifts of balm from cedared glens those darling memories come | A |
| With soft low songs and dear old tales familiar to our home | B |
| Then breathe again that faint refrain so tender sad and true | C |
| My soul turns round with listening eyes unto the harp and you | C |
| The fragments of a broken Past are floating down the tide | D |
| And she comes gleaming through the dark my love my life my bride | D |
| Oh sit and sing I know her well that phantom deadly fair | E |
| With large surprise and sudden sighs and streaming midnight hair | E |
| I know her well for face to face we stood amongst the sheaves | F |
| Our voices mingling with a mist of music in the leaves | F |
| I know her well for hand in hand we walked beside the sea | G |
| And heard the huddling waters boom beneath this old Figtree | E |
| God help the man that goes abroad amongst the windy pines | H |
| And wanders like a gloomy bat where never morning shines | H |
| That steals about amidst the rout of broken stones and graves | I |
| When round the cliffs the merry skiffs go scudding through the waves | I |
| When down the bay the children play and scamper on the sand | J |
| And Life and Mirth illume the Earth and Beauty fills the Land | J |
| God help the man He only hears and fears the sleepless cries | K |
| Of smitten Love of homeless Love and moaning Memories | L |
| Oh when a rhyme of olden time is sung by one so dear | E |
| I feel again the sweetest pain I ve known for many a year | E |
| And from a deep dull sea of sleep faint fancies come to me | G |
| And I forget how lone we sit beneath this old Figtree | E |
Henry Kendall
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