Talk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFGHIJKJLMLM NONOPQRQGSGSTUTV WXWXYZYA2| So many were there talking that I heard | A |
| Nothing at first quite plain as I sat down | B |
| Until from this man's gibe and that keen word | A |
| Another's chilly smile or peevish frown | B |
| I caught their talk but added none of mine | C |
| They said how she still fumbled with her fate | D |
| How she had banished visitants divine | C |
| How long her sleep had been her sloth how great | D |
| How others had drawn near and passed her by | E |
| While she luxuriously had dreamed dreamed on | F |
| She she her own eternal enemy | G |
| And wanting brain brain brain would be undone | H |
| The glasses tinkled as they talked and laughed | I |
| And if the door a moment hung ajar | J |
| The noises of the street remotely soft | K |
| Crept in as from a world sunken afar | J |
| And still they talked and then well pleased were pleased | L |
| To talk of other things another's wife | M |
| Money that ministers to a mind diseased | L |
| And queer extravagant whims of death and life | M |
| But I rose up flushed at the careless slander | N |
| Heedless what other laughing things were said | O |
| And my bruised thoughts began to lift and wander | N |
| Far off as from that jargoning I fled | O |
| I saw the sharp green hills the silver clouds | P |
| At rest upon the hills the silver streams | Q |
| Creeping between prone shoulders of dark woods | R |
| I saw wide marshlands laved with level beams | Q |
| Of the last light I saw ships on the sea | G |
| That foamed hard by stinging the fretful shore | S |
| I smelt old ships on the deserted quay | G |
| That English sailors sailed and will no more | S |
| I thought of men I loved and of dead men | T |
| I had longed to know and each heroic ghost | U |
| Rose and moved on and left me alone again | T |
| Aching for love and splendour glimpsed and lost | V |
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| God knows what things I thought when anger broke | W |
| Her narrow dam and swept my spirit clean | X |
| Yet I for very shame not a word spoke | W |
| But to my heart's heart caught the things I had seen | X |
| And England England murmuring stood and stared | Y |
| Swept like a lover with sweet influence | Z |
| In brain and bone and happy that I had spared | Y |
| Her nobleness the indignity of defence | A2 |
John Freeman
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