Judging Distances Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEC EFCDEG EFFHIJ KLMNCO PHMQRF SFTMBU VDWXYZ| Not only how far away but the way that you say it | A |
| Is very important Perhaps You may never get | B |
| The knack of judging a distance but at least you know | C |
| How to report on a landscape the central sector | D |
| The right of the arc and that which we had last Tuesday | E |
| And at least you know | C |
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| That maps are of time not place so far as the army | E |
| Happens to be concerned the reason being | F |
| Is one which need not delay us Again you know | C |
| There are three kinds of tree three only the fir and the poplar | D |
| And those which have bushy tops to and lastly | E |
| That things only seem to be things | G |
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| A barn is not called a barn to put it more plainly | E |
| Or a field in the distance where sheep may be safely grazing | F |
| You must never be over sure You must say when reporting | F |
| At five o'clock in the central sector is a dozen | H |
| Of what appear to be animals whatever you do | I |
| Don't call the bleeders sheep | J |
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| I am sure that's quite clear and suppose for the sake of example | K |
| The one at the end asleep endeavors to tell us | L |
| What he sees over there to the west and how far away | M |
| After first having come to attention There to the west | N |
| Of the fields of the summer sun and the shadows bestow | C |
| Vestments of purple and gold | O |
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| The white dwellings are like a mirage in the heat | P |
| And under the swaying elms a man and a woman | H |
| Lie gently together Which is perhaps only to say | M |
| That there is a row of houses to the left of the arc | Q |
| And that under some poplars a pair of what appear to be humans | R |
| Appear to be loving | F |
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| Well that for an answer is what we rightly call | S |
| Moderately satisfactory only the reason being | F |
| Is that two things have been ommitted and those are very important | T |
| The human beings now in what direction are they | M |
| And how far away would you say And do not forget | B |
| There may be dead ground in between | U |
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| There may be dead ground in between and I may not have got | V |
| The knack of judging a distance I will only venture | D |
| A guess that perhaps between me and the apparent lovers | W |
| Who incidentally appear by now to have finished | X |
| At seven o'clock from the houses is roughly a distance | Y |
| Of about one year and a half | Z |
Henry Reed
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