The Town Without A Market Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGHIIJJKK LMNNOODDPPFFQQFFFFRR SSTTUUVVWWXXYY ZA2There lies afar behind a western hill | A |
The Town without a Market white and still | A |
For six feet long and not a third as high | B |
Are those small habitations There stood I | B |
Waiting to hear the citizens beneath | C |
Murmur and sigh and speak through tongueless teeth | C |
When all the world lay burning in the sun | D |
I heard their voices speak to me Said one | D |
Bright lights I loved and colours I who find | E |
That death is darkness and has struck me blind | E |
Another cried I used to sing and play | F |
But here the world is silent day by day | F |
And one On earth I could not see or hear | G |
But with my fingers touched what I was near | H |
And knew things round and soft and brass from gold | I |
And dipped my hand in water to feel cold | I |
And thought the grave would cure me and was glad | J |
When the time came to lose what joy I had | J |
Soon all the voices of a hundred dead | K |
Shouted in wrath together Someone said | K |
I care not but the girl was sweet to kiss | L |
At evening in the meadows Hard it is | M |
Another cried to hear no hunting horn | N |
Ah me the horse the hounds and the great grey morn | N |
When I rode out a hunting And one sighed | O |
I did not see my son before I died | O |
A boy said I was strong and swift to run | D |
Now they have tied my feet what have I done | D |
A man But it was good to arm and fight | P |
And storm their cities in the dead of night | P |
An old man said I read my books all day | F |
But death has taken all my books away | F |
And one The popes and prophets did not well | Q |
To cheat poor dead men with false hopes of hell | Q |
Better the whips of fire that hiss and rend | F |
Than painless void proceeding to no end | F |
I smiled to hear them restless I who sought | F |
Peace For I had not loved I had not fought | F |
And books are vanities and manly strength | R |
A gathered flower God grant us peace at length | R |
I heard no more and turned to leave their town | S |
Before the chill came and the sun went down | S |
Then rose a whisper and I seemed to know | T |
A timorous man buried long years ago | T |
On Earth I used to shape the Thing that seems | U |
Master of all men give me back my dreams | U |
Give me that world that never failed me then | V |
The hills I made and peopled with tall men | V |
The palace that I built and called my home | W |
My cities which could break the pride of Rome | W |
The three queens hidden in the sacred tree | X |
And those white cloudy folk who sang to me | X |
O death why hast thou covered me so deep | Y |
I was thy sister's child the friend of Sleep | Y |
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Then said my heart Death takes and cannot give | Z |
Dark with no dream is hateful let me live | A2 |
James Elroy Flecker
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