From Wear To Thames Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DECC CFGG GHII JAKK GLKK GMKK NOGG GPQQ RHAA| Is it because Spring now is come | A |
| That my heart leaps in its bed of dust | B |
| Is it with sorrow or strange pleasure | C |
| To watch the green time's gathering treasure | C |
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| Or is there some too sharp distaste | D |
| In all this quivering green and gold | E |
| Something that makes bare boughs yet barer | C |
| And the eye's pure delight the rarer | C |
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| Not that the new found Spring is sour | C |
| The blossom swings on the cherry branch | F |
| From Wear to Thames I have seen this greenness | G |
| Cover the six months winter meanness | G |
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| And windflowers and yellow gillyflowers | G |
| Pierce the astonished earth with light | H |
| And most loved wallflower's bloody petal | I |
| Shakes over that long frosty battle | I |
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| But this leaping sinking heart | J |
| Finds question in grass bud and blossom | A |
| Too deeply into the earth is prying | K |
| Too sharply hears old voices crying | K |
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| There is in blossom bud and grass | G |
| Something that's neither sorrow nor joy | L |
| Something that sighs like autumn sighing | K |
| And in each living thing is dying | K |
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| It is myself that whispers and stares | G |
| Down from the hill and in the wood | M |
| And in the untended orchard's shining | K |
| Sees the light through thin leaves declining | K |
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| Let me forget what I have been | N |
| What I can never be again | O |
| Let me forget my winter's meanness | G |
| In this fond flushing world of greenness | G |
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| Let me forget the world that is | G |
| The changing image of my thought | P |
| Nor see in thicket and hedge and meadow | Q |
| Myself a grave perplex egrave d shadow | Q |
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| And O forget that gloomy shade | R |
| That breathes his cloud 'twixt earth and light | H |
| All all forget but sun and blossom | A |
| And the bird that bears heaven in his bosom | A |
John Freeman
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