Chard Whitlow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHI JBKLMMMMNO PQMRST HBU| Mr Eliot's Sunday Evening Postscript | A |
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| As we get older we do not get any younger | B |
| Seasons return and to day I am fifty five | C |
| And this time last year I was fifty four | D |
| And this time next year I shall be sixty two | E |
| And I cannot say I should like to speak for myself | F |
| To see my time over again if you can call it time | G |
| Fidgeting uneasily under a draughty stair | H |
| Or counting sleepless nights in the crowded tube | I |
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| There are certain precautions though none of them very reliable | J |
| Against the blast from bombs and the flying splinter | B |
| But not against the blast from heaven vento dei venti | K |
| The wind within a wind unable to speak for wind | L |
| And the frigid burnings of purgatory will not be touched | M |
| By any emollient | M |
| I think you will find this put | M |
| Better than I could ever hope to express it | M |
| In the words of Kharma 'It is we believe | N |
| Idle to hope that the simple stirrup pump | O |
| Will extinguish hell ' | - |
| Oh listeners | P |
| And you especially who have turned off the wireless | Q |
| And sit in Stoke or Basingstoke listening appreciatively to | M |
| the silence | R |
| Which is also the silence of hell pray not for your skins | S |
| but for your souls | T |
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| And pray for me also under the draughty stair | H |
| As we get older we do not get any younger | B |
| And pray for Kharma under the holy mountain | U |
Henry Reed
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