Sunday Up The River:1 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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En allant promener aux champs	A
J'y ai trouv les bl s si grands	B
Les aub pines florissant	C
En verite en verite	C
C'est le mois le joli mois	B
C'est le joli mois de mai	D
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Dieu veuill' garder les wins les bl s	B
Les jeunes filles marier	E
Les jeun' gar ons pour les aimer	E
En v rit en v rit	C
C'est le mois le joli mois	B
C'est le joli mois de mai	D
Carol of Lorraine	F
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I	D
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I looked out into the morning	G
I looked out into the west	C
The soft blue eye of the quiet sky	D
Still drooped in dreamy rest	C
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The trees were still like clouds there	E
The clouds like mountains dim	H
The broad mist lay a silver bay	I
Whose tide was at the brim	H
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I looked out into the morning	G
I looked out into the east	C
The flood of light upon the night	C
Had silently increased	C
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The sky was pale with fervour	E
The distant trees were grey	E
The hill lines drawn like waves of dawn	J
Dissolving in the day	E
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I looked out into the morning	G
Looked east looked west with glee	K
O richest day of happy May	E
My Love will spend with me	K
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II	D
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Oh what are you waiting for here young man	L
What are you looking for over the bridge	M
A little straw hat with the streaming blue ribbons	B
Is soon to come dancing over the bridge	M
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Her heart beats the measure that keeps her feet dancing	G
Dancing along like a wave o' the sea	K
Her heart pours the sunshine with which her eyes glancing	G
Light up strange faces in looking for me	K
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The strange faces brighten in meeting her glances	B
The strangers all bless her pure lovely and free	K
She fancies she walks but her walk skips and dances	B
Her heart makes such music in coming to me	K
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Oh thousands and thousands of happy young maidens	B
Are tripping this morning their sweethearts to see	K
But none whose heart beats to a sweeter love cadence	B
Than hers who will brighten the sunshine for me	K
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Oh what are you waiting for here young man	L
What are you looking for over the bridge	M
A little straw hat with the streaming blue ribbons	B
And here it comes dancing over the bridge	M
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III	D
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In the vast vague grey	E
Mistily luminous brightly dim	H
The trees to the south there far away	E
Float as beautiful strange and grand	C
As pencilled palm trees every line	N
Mystic with a grace divine	N
In our dreams of the holy Eastern Land	C
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There is not a cloud in the sky	D
The vague vast grey	E
Melts into azure dim on high	D
Warmth and languor and infinite peace	B
Surely the young Day	E
Hath fallen into a vision and a trance	B
And his burning flight doth cease	B
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Yet look how here and there	E
Soft curves fine contours seem to swim	H
Half emerging wan and dim	H
Into the quiet air	E
Like statues growing slowly slowly out	C
From the great vault of marble here a limb	H
And there a feature but the rest all doubt	C
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Then the sculpturing sunbeams smite	C
And the forms start forth to the day	C
And the breath of the morning sweepeth light	C
The luminous dust away	C
And soon soon soon	O
Crowning the floor of the land and the sea	K
Shall be wrought the dome of Noon	O
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The burning sapphire dome	P
With solemn imagery vast shapes that stand	C
Each like an island ringed with flashing foam	P
Black purple mountains creeks and rivers of light	C
Crags of cleft crystal blazing to the crest	C
Vast isles that move that roam	P
A tideless sea of infinite fathomless rest	C
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Thus shall it be this noon	O
And thus so slowly slowly from its birth	Q
In the long night's dark swoon	O
Through the long morning's trance sweet vague and dim	H
The Sun divine above	R
Doth build up in us Heaven completing Earth	Q
Our solemn Noon of Love	R
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IV	R
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The church bells are ringing	G
How green the earth how fresh and fair	E
The thrushes are singing	G
What rapture but to breathe this air	E
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The church bells are ringing	G
Lo how the river dreameth there	E
The thrushes are singing	G
Green flames wave lightly everywhere	E
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The church bells are ringing	G
How all the world breathes praise and prayer	E
The thrushes are singing	G
What Sabbath peace doth trance the air	E
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V	R
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I love all hardy exercise	B
That makes one strain and quiver	E
And best of all I love and prize	B
This boating on our river	E
I to row and you to steer	E
Gay shall be Life's trip my dear	E
You to steer and I to row	E
All is bright where'er we go	E
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We push off from the bank again	S
We're free upon the waters	B
The happiest of the sons of men	S
The fairest of earth's daughters	B
And I row and I row	E
The blue floats above us as we go	E
And you steer and you steer	E
Framed in gliding wood and water O my dear	E
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I pull a long calm mile or two	T
Pull slowly deftly feather	E
How sinful any work to do	T
In this Italian weather	E
Yet I row yet I row	E
The blue floats above us as we go	E
While you steer while you steer	E
Framed in gliding wood and water O my dear	E
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Those lovely breadths of lawn that sweep	U
Adown in still green billows	B
And o'er the brim in fountains leap	U
Green fountains weeping willows	B
And I row and I row	E
The blue floats above us as we go	E
And you steer and you steer	E
Framed in gliding wood and water O my dear	E
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We push among the flags in flower	E
Beneath the branches tender	E
And we are in a faerie bower	E
Of green and golden splendour	E
I to row and you to steer	E
Gay must be Life's trip my dear	E
You to steer and I to row	E
All is bright where'er we go	E
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A secret bower where we can hide	C
In lustrous shadow lonely	R
The crystal floor may lap and glide	C
To rock our dreaming only	R
I to row and you to steer	E
Gay must be Life's trip my dear	E
You to steer and I to row	E
All is bright where'er we go	E
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VI	R
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I love this hardy exercise	B
This strenuous toil of boating	G
Our skiff beneath the willow lies	B
Half stranded and half floating	G
As I lie as I lie	R
Glimpses dazzle of the blue and burning sky	R
As you lean as you lean	V
Faerie Princess of the secret faerie scene	V
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My shirt is of the soft red wool	W
My cap is azure braided	C
By two white hands so beautiful	X
My tie mauve purple shaded	C
As I lie as I lie	R
Glimpses dazzle of white clouds and sapphire sky	R
As you lean as you lean	V
Faerie Princess of the secret faerie scene	V
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Your hat with long blue streamers decked	C
Your pure throat crimson banded	C
White robed my own white dove unflecked	C
Dove footed lilac handed	C
As I lie as I lie	R
Glimpses dazzle of white clouds and sapphire sky	R
As you lean as you lean	V
Faerie Princess of the secret faerie scene	V
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If any boaters boating past	C
Should look where we're reclining	G
They'll say To day green willows glassed	C
Rubies and sapphires shining	G
As I lie as I lie	R
Glimpses dazzle of the blue and burning sky	R
As you lean as you lean	V
Faerie Princess of the secret faerie scene	V
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VII	R
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Grey clouds come puffing from my lips	B
And hang there softly curling	G
While from the bowl now leaps now slips	B
A steel blue thread high twirling	G
As I lie as I lie	R
The hours fold their wings beneath the sky	R
As you lean as you lean	V
In that trance of perfect love and bliss serene	V
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I gaze on you and I am crowned	C
A Monarch great and glorious	B
A Hero in all realms renowned	C
A Faerie Prince victorious	B
As I lie as I lie	R
The hours fold their wings beneath the sky	R
As you lean as you lean	V
In that trance of perfect love and bliss serene	V
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Your violet eyes pour out their whole	Y
Pure light in earnest rapture	E
Your thoughts come dreaming through my soul	Y
And nestle past recapture	E
As I lie as I lie	R
The hours fold their wings beneath the sky	R
As you lean as you lean	V
In that trance of perfect love and bliss serene	V
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O friends your best years to the oar	E
Like galley slaves devoting	G
This is and shall be evermore	E
The true sublime of boating	G
As I lie as I lie	R
The hours fold their wings beneath the sky	R
As you lean as you lean	V
In that trance of perfect love and bliss serene	V
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VIII	R
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The water is cool and sweet and pure	E
The water is clear as crystal	X
And water's a noble liquid sure	E
But look at my pocket pistol	X
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Tim Boyland gave it me one of two	T
The rogue brought back from Dublin	Z
With a jar of the genuine stuff hurroo	E
How deliciously it comes bubblin'	Z
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It is not brandy it is not wine	Z
It is Jameson's Irish Whisky	R
It fills the heart with joy divine	Z
And it makes the fancy frisky	R
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All other spirits are vile resorts	B
Except its own Scotch first cousin	Z
And as for your Clarets and Sherries and Ports	B
A naggin is worth a dozen	Z
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I have watered this though a toothful neat	C
Just melts like cream down the throttle	X
But it's grand in the punch hot strong and sweet	C
Not a headache in a bottle	X
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It is amber as the western skies	B
When the sunset glows serenest	C
It is mellow as the mild moonrise	B
When the shamrock leaves fold greenest	C
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Just a little wee wee tiny sip	A2
Just the wet of the bill of a starling	G
A drop of dew for the rosy lip	A2
And two stars in the eyes of my darling	G
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'Faith your kiss has made it so sweet at the brim	H
I could go on supping for ever	E
We'll pocket the pistol And Tim you limb	H
May this craturr abandon you never	E
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IX	B
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Like violets pale i' the Spring o' the year	E
Came my Love's sad eyes to my youth	B2
Wan and dim with many a tear	E
But the sweeter for that in sooth	B2
Wet and dim	H
Tender and true	E
Violet eyes	B
Of the sweetest blue	E
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Like pansies dark i' the June o' the year	E
Grow my Love's glad eyes to my prime	C2
Rich with the purple splendour clear	E
Of their thoughtful bliss sublime	C2
Deep and dark	D2
Solemn and true	E
Pansy eyes	B
Of the noblest blue	E
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X	B
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Were I a real Poet I would sing	G
Such joyous songs of you and all mere truth	B2
As true as buds and tender leaves in Spring	G
As true as lofty dreams in dreamful youth	B2
That men should cry How foolish every one	Z
Who thinks the world is getting out of tune	Z
Where is the tarnish in our golden sun	Z
Where is the clouding in our crystal moon	Z
The lark sings now the eversame new song	E2
With which it soared through Eden's purest skies	B
This poet's music doth for us prolong	E2
The very speech Love learnt in Paradise	B
This maiden is as young and pure and fair	E
As Eve agaze on Adam sleeping there	E
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XI	B
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When will you have not a sole kiss left	C
And my prodigal mouth be all bereft	C
When your lips have ravished the last sweet flush	F2
Of the red with which the roses blush	F2
Now I kiss them and kiss them till they hush	F2
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When will you have not a glance to give	R
Of the love in whose lustre my glances live	R
When O my darling your fathomless eyes	B
Have drawn all the azure out of the skies	B
Now I gaze and I gaze till they dare not rise	B
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When will you find not a single vow	R
Of the myriads and myriads you lavish now	R
When your voice has gurgled the last sweet note	C
That was meant from the nightingales to float	C
Now I whisper it whisper it dumb in your throat	C
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When will you love me no more no more	E
And my happy happy dream be o'er	E
When no rose is red and no skies are blue	E
And no nightingale sings the whole year through	E
Then my heart may have no love for you	E
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XII	B
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My Love o'er the water bends dreaming	G
It glideth and glideth away	C
She sees there her own beauty gleaming	G
Through shadow and ripple and spray	C
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Oh tell her thou murmuring river	E
As past her your light wavelets roll	Y
How steadfast that image for ever	E
Shines pure in pure depths of my soul	Y
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XIII	B
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The wandering airs float over the lawn	Z
And linger and whisper in at our bower	E
They babble babble all they know	Z
The delicate secrets they have drawn	Z
From bird and meadow and tree and flower	E
Gossiping softly whispering low	Z
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Some linden stretches itself to the height	C
Then rustles back to its dream of the day	C
They babble babble all they know	Z
Some bird would trill out its love delight	C
But the honey melts in its throat away	C
Gossiping softly whispering low	Z
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Some flower seduced by the treacherous calm	G2
Breathes all its soul in a fragrant sigh	R
They babble babble all they know	Z
Some blossom weeps a tear of balm	G2
For the lost caress of a butterfly	R
Gossiping softly whispering low	Z
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Our Mother lies in siesta now	R
And we listen to her breathings here	E
They babble babble all they know	Z
And we learn all the thoughts hid under her brow	R
All her heart's deep dreams of the happy year	E
Gossiping softly whispering low	Z
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XIV	R
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Those azure azure eyes	B
Gaze on me with their love	R
And I am lost in dream	H2
And cannot speak or move	R
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Those azure azure eyes	B
Stay with me when we part	C
A sea of azure thoughts	B
Overfloods my heart	C
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XV	R
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Give a man a horse he can ride	C
Give a man a boat he can sail	I2
And his rank and wealth his strength and health	B2
On sea nor shore shall fail	I2
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Give a man a pipe he can smoke	J2
Give a man a book he can read	C
And his home is bright with a calm delight	C
Though the room be poor indeed	C
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Give a man a girl he can love	R
As I O my Love love thee	B
And his heart is great with the pulse of Fate	C
At home on land on sea	B
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XVI	R
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My love is the flaming Sword	C
To fight through the world	C
Thy love is the Shield to ward	C
And the Armour of the Lord	C
And the Banner of Heaven unfurled	C
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XVII	R
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Let my voice ring out and over the earth	B2
Through all the grief and strife	R
With a golden joy in a silver mirth	B2
Thank God for Life	R
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Let my voice swell out through the great abyss	B
To the azure dome above	R
With a chord of faith in the harp of bliss	B
Thank God for Love	R
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Let my voice thrill out beneath and above	R
The whole world through	E
O my Love and Life O my Life and Love	R
Thank God for you	E
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XVIII	R
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The wine of Love is music	K2
And the feast of Love is song	E2
And when Love sits down to the banquet	C
Love sits long	E2
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Sits long and ariseth drunken	Z
But not with the feast and the wine	Z
He reeleth with his own heart	C
That great rich Vine	Z
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XIX	B
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Drink drink open your mouth	B2
This air is as rich as wine	Z
Flowing with balm from the sunny south	B2
And health from the western brine	Z
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Drink drink open your mouth	B2
This air is as strong as wine	Z
My brain is drugged with the balm o' the south	B2
And rolls with the western brine	Z
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Drink drink open your mouth	B2
This air is the choicest wine	Z
From that golden grape the Sun i' the south	B2
Of Heaven's broad vine	Z
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XX	B
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Could we float thus ever	E
Floating down a river	E
Down a tranquil river and you alone with me	B
Past broad shining meadows	B
Past the great wood shadows	B
Past fair farms and hamlets for ever to the sea	B
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Through the golden noonlight	C
Through the silver moonlight	C
Through the tender gloaming gliding calm and free	B
From the sunset gliding	G
Into morning sliding	G
With the tranquil river for ever to the sea	B
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Past the masses hoary	B
Of cities great in story	B
Past their towers and temples drifting lone and free	B
Gliding never hasting	G
Gliding never resting	G
Ever with the river that glideth to the sea	B
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With a swifter motion	Z
Out upon the Ocean	Z
Heaven above and round us and you alone with me	B
Heaven around and o'er us	B
The Infinite before us	B
Floating on for ever upon the flowing sea	B
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What time is it dear now	R
We are in the year now	R
Of the New Creation one million two or three	B
But where are we now Love	R
We are as I trow Love	R
In the Heaven of Heavens upon the Crystal Sea	B
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And may mortal sinners	B
Care for carnal dinners	B
In your Heaven of Heavens New Era millions three	B
Oh if their boat gets stranding	G
Upon some Richmond landing	G
They're thirsty as the desert and hungry as the sea	B

James Thomson - (bysshe Vanolis)

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