John Freeman

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The Shock Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DEFC GCHH IIJC KKLM CCNN OOCP NICC NNQQ

Thinking of these of beautiful brief thingsA
Of things that are of sense and spirit madeB
Of meadow flowers dense hedges and dark bushesC
With roses trailing over nests of thrushesC
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Of dews so pure and bright and flush'd and coolD
And like the flowers as brief as beautifulE
Thinking of the tall grass and daisies tallF
And whispered music of the waving bentsC
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Of these that like a simple child I loveG
Since they are life and life is flowers and grassC
Thinking of trees and water at their feetH
Answering the trees with murmur childlike sweetH
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Thinking of those high thoughts that passed like the windI
Yet left their brightness lying on the mindI
As the white blossoms the raw airs shake downJ
That lie awhile yet lovely on the chill grassC
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Thinking of the dark where all these end like cloudK
And the stars watch like Knights to Honour vowedK
Of those too lovely colours of the EastL
And the too tender loveliness of greyM
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Thinking of all I was as one that standsC
'Neath the bewildering shock of breaking seasC
Mortal immortal things had lost their powerN
I knew no more than sweetness in the flowerN
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No more than colour in the changing lightO
No more than order in the stars of nightO
A breathing tree was but gaunt wood and leavesC
All these had lost their old power over meP
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I had forgotten that ever such things wereN
Immortal mortal I had been but blindI
O the wild sweetness of the renewing senseC
That swept me and drove all but sweetness henceC
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As beautiful as brief ah lovelierN
Being but mortal Yet I had great fearN
That I should die ere these sweet things were deadQ
Or live on knowing the wild sweetness fledQ

John Freeman



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