A Far Place Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEFE GHIH DJKJ LMIN IOIO PQIQ RIPI ASIT IUIU VWXW IYIY YZA2Z IB2IB2 RC2ID2 LCDC

To K WigramA
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Sheltered when the rain blew over the hills it wasB
Sunny all day when the days of summer were longC
Beyond all rumour of labouring towns it wasB
But at dawn and evening its trees were noisy with songC
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There were four elms on the southward lawn standingD
Their great trunks evenly set in a squareE
Of shadowed grass in spring pierced with crocusesF
And their tops met high in the empty airE
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Where the morning rose the grey church was below usG
If we stood by the porch we saw on either handH
The ground falling the trees falling and meadowsI
A river hamlets and spires a chequered landH
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A wide country where cloud shadows went chasingD
Mile after mile diminishing fast untilJ
They met the far blue downs but round the cornerK
The western garden lay lonely under the hillJ
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And closed in the western garden under the hillsideL
Where silence was and the rest of the world was goneM
We saw and took the curving year's munificenceI
Changing from flower to flower the garden shoneN
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Early its walks were fringed with little rock plantsI
Sprays and tufts of blossom white yellow and blueO
And all about were sprinkled stars of narcissusI
And swathes of tulips all over the garden grewO
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White groups and pink red crimson and lemon yellowP
And the yellow and red streaked tulips once loved by a boyQ
Red and yellow their stiff and varnished petalsI
And the scent of them stings me still with a youthful joyQ
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And in the season of perfect and frailest beautyR
Pear blossom broke and the lilacs' waxen conesI
And a tranced laburnum trailing its veils of yellowP
Tenderly drooped over the ivied stonesI
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The lilacs browned a breath dried the laburnumA
The swollen peonies scattered the earth with bloodS
And the rhododendrons shed their sumptuous mantlesI
And the marshalled irises unsceptred stoodT
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And the borders filled with daisies and pied sweet williamsI
And busy pansies and there as we gazed and dreamedU
And breathed the swooning smell of the packed carnationsI
The present was always the crown of all it seemedU
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Each month more beautiful sprang from a robe discardedV
The year all effortless dropt the best awayW
And struck the heart with loveliness new more lavishX
When the clambering rose had blown and died by dayW
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The broad leaved tapering many shielded hollyhocksI
Stood like pillars and shone to the August sunY
The glimmering cups of waking evening primrosesI
Filled the dusk now the scent of the rose was doneY
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A wall there was and a door to the rose gardenY
And out of that a gate to the orchard ledZ
And there was the last hedge and the turf sloped upwardA2
Till the sky was cut by the hill's line overheadZ
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And thither at times we climbed and far below usI
That world that had made the world remote was seenB2
Small a huddle of russet roofs and chimneysI
And its guard of elms like bushes against the greenB2
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One spot in the country little and mild and homelyR
The nearest house of a wide populous plainC2
But down at evening under the stars and the branchesI
In the whispering garden we lost the world againD2
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Whispering faint the garden under the hillsideL
Under the stars Is it true that we lived there longC
Was it certainly so Did ever we know that dwellingD
Breathe that night and hear in the night that songC

John Collings Squire, Sir



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