Oxford Canal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGEHFIJKLMNONPQ RSNTUVWXYZN| When you have wearied of the valiant spires of this County Town | A |
| Of its wide white streets and glistening museums and black monastic walls | B |
| Of its red motors and lumbering trains and self sufficient people | C |
| I will take you walking with me to a place you have not seen | D |
| Half town and half country the land of the Canal | E |
| It is dearer to me than the antique town I love it more than the | F |
| rounded hills | G |
| Straightest sublimest of rivers is the long Canal | E |
| I have observed great storms and trembled I have wept for fear of the dark | H |
| But nothing makes me so afraid as the clear water of this idle canal on a | F |
| summer's noon | I |
| Do you see the great telegraph poles down in the water how every wire is | J |
| distinct | K |
| If a body fell into the canal it would rest entangled in those wires for | L |
| ever between earth and air | M |
| For the water is as deep as the stars are high | N |
| One day I was thinking how if a man fell from that lofty pole | O |
| He would rush through the water toward me till his image was scattered by | N |
| his splash | P |
| When suddenly a train rushed by the brazen dome of the engine flashed | Q |
| the long white carriages roared | R |
| The sun veiled himself for a moment and the signals loomed in fog | S |
| A savage woman screamed at me from a barge little children began to cry | N |
| The untidy landscape rose to life a sawmill started | T |
| A cart rattled down to the wharf and workmen clanged over the iron footbridge | U |
| A beautiful old man nodded from the first story window of a square red house | V |
| And a pretty girl came out to hang up clothes in a small delightful garden | W |
| O strange motion in the suburb of a county town slow regular movement | X |
| of the dance of death | Y |
| Men and not phantoms are these that move in light | Z |
| Forgotten they live and forgotten die | N |
James Elroy Flecker
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