Trebetherick Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABABCDCD EFEFEFGHGH GIGJGIKLKL MNMNMNOCOC| We used to picnic where the thrift | A |
| Grew deep and tufted to the edge | B |
| We saw the yellow foam flakes drift | A |
| In trembling sponges on the ledge | B |
| Below us till the wind would lift | A |
| Them up the cliff and o'er the hedge | B |
| Sand in the sandwiches wasps in the tea | C |
| Sun on our bathing dresses heavy with the wet | D |
| Squelch of the bladder wrack waiting for the sea | C |
| Fleas around the tamarisk an early cigarette | D |
| - | |
| From where the coastguard houses stood | E |
| One used to see below the hill | F |
| The lichened branches of a wood | E |
| In summer silver cool and still | F |
| And there the Shade of Evil could | E |
| Stretch out at us from Shilla Mill | F |
| Thick with sloe and blackberry uneven in the light | G |
| Lonely round the hedge the heavy meadow was remote | H |
| The oldest part of Cornwall was the wood as black as night | G |
| And the pheasant and the rabbit lay torn open at the throat | H |
| - | |
| But when a storm was at its height | G |
| And feathery slate was black in rain | I |
| And tamarisks were hung with light | G |
| And golden sand was brown again | J |
| Spring tide and blizzard would unite | G |
| And sea come flooding up the lane | I |
| Waves full of treasure then were roaring up the beach | K |
| Ropes round our mackintoshes waders warm and dry | L |
| We waited for the wreckage to come swirling into reach | K |
| Ralph Vasey Alistair Biddy John and I | L |
| - | |
| Then roller into roller curled | M |
| And thundered down the rocky bay | N |
| And we were in a water world | M |
| Of rain and blizzard sea and spray | N |
| And one against the other hurled | M |
| We struggled round to Greenaway | N |
| Bless d be St Enodoc bless d be the wave | O |
| Bless d be the springy turf we pray pray to thee | C |
| Ask for our children all happy days you gave | O |
| To Ralph Vasey Alistair Biddy John and me | C |
John Betjeman
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