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The Countess Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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TO E W	A
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I KNOW not Time and Space so intervene	B
Whether still waiting with a trust serene	B
Thou bearest up thy fourscore years and ten	C
Or called at last art now Heaven's citizen	D
But here or there a pleasant thought of thee	E
Like an old friend all day has been with me	E
The shy still boy for whom thy kindly hand	F
Smoothed his hard pathway to the wonder land	F
Of thought and fancy in gray manhood yet	G
Keeps green the memory of his early debt	G
To day when truth and falsehood speak their words	H
Through hot lipped cannon and the teeth of swords	I
Listening with quickened heart and ear intent	J
To each sharp clause of that stern argument	K
I still can hear at times a softer note	L
Of the old pastoral music round me float	L
While through the hot gleam of our civil strife	M
Looms the green mirage of a simpler life	M
As at his alien post the sentinel	N
Drops the old bucket in the homestead well	O
And hears old voices in the winds that toss	P
Above his head the live oak's beard of moss	P
So in our trial time and under skies	Q
Shadowed by swords like Islam's paradise	R
I wait and watch and let my fancy stray	S
To milder scenes and youth's Arcadian day	S
And howsoe'er the pencil dipped in dreams	T
Shades the brown woods or tints the sunset streams	T
The country doctor in the foreground seems	T
Whose ancient sulky down the village lanes	U
Dragged like a war car captive ills and pains	U
I could not paint the scenery of my song	V
Mindless of one who looked thereon so long	V
Who night and day on duty's lonely round	W
Made friends o' the woods and rocks and knew the sound	W
Of each small brook and what the hillside trees	X
Said to the winds that touched their leafy keys	X
Who saw so keenly and so well could paint	Y
The village folk with all their humors quaint	Y
The parson ambling on his wall eyed roan	Z
Grave and erect with white hair backward blown	Z
The tough old boatman half amphibious grown	Z
The muttering witch wife of the gossip's tale	A2
And the loud straggler levying his blackmail	A2
Old customs habits superstitions fears	B2
All that lies buried under fifty years	B2
To thee as is most fit I bring my lay	S
And grateful own the debt I cannot pay	S
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Over the wooded northern ridge	C2
Between its houses brown	D2
To the dark tunnel of the bridge	C2
The street comes straggling down	D2
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You catch a glimpse through birch and pine	E2
Of gable roof and porch	F2
The tavern with its swinging sign	E2
The sharp horn of the church	G2
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The river's steel blue crescent curves	H2
To meet in ebb and flow	I2
The single broken wharf that serves	H2
For sloop and gundelow	I2
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With salt sea scents along its shores	J2
The heavy hay boats crawl	I2
The long antennae of their oars	J2
In lazy rise and fall	I2
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Along the gray abutment's wall	I2
The idle shad net dries	Q
The toll man in his cobbler's stall	I2
Sits smoking with closed eyes	Q
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You hear the pier's low undertone	Z
Of waves that chafe and gnaw	K2
You start a skipper's horn is blown	Z
To raise the creaking draw	K2
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At times a blacksmith's anvil sounds	L2
With slow and sluggard beat	M2
Or stage coach on its dusty rounds	L2
Fakes up the staring street	M2
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A place for idle eyes and ears	B2
A cobwebbed nook of dreams	T
Left by the stream whose waves are years	B2
The stranded village seems	T
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And there like other moss and rust	N2
The native dweller clings	O2
And keeps in uninquiring trust	N2
The old dull round of things	O2
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The fisher drops his patient lines	P2
The farmer sows his grain	Q2
Content to hear the murmuring pines	P2
Instead of railroad train	Q2
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Go where along the tangled steep	R2
That slopes against the west	S2
The hamlet's buried idlers sleep	R2
In still profounder rest	S2
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Throw back the locust's flowery plume	T2
The birch's pale green scarf	U2
And break the web of brier and bloom	T2
From name and epitaph	V2
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A simple muster roll of death	W2
Of pomp and romance shorn	X2
The dry old names that common breath	W2
Has cheapened and outworn	X2
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Yet pause by one low mound and part	Y2
The wild vines o'er it laced	Z2
And read the words by rustic art	Y2
Upon its headstone traced	Z2
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Haply yon white haired villager	A3
Of fourscore years can say	S
What means the noble name of her	A3
Who sleeps with common clay	S
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An exile from the Gascon land	F
Found refuge here and rest	S2
And loved of all the village band	F
Its fairest and its best	S2
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He knelt with her on Sabbath morns	S
He worshipped through her eyes	S
And on the pride that doubts and scorns	S
Stole in her faith's surprise	S
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Her simple daily life he saw	S
By homeliest duties tried	B3
In all things by an untaught law	S
Of fitness justified	B3
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For her his rank aside he laid	C3
He took the hue and tone	X2
Of lowly life and toil and made	C3
Her simple ways his own	X2
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Yet still in gay and careless ease	S
To harvest field or dance	S
He brought the gentle courtesies	S
The nameless grace of France	S
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And she who taught him love not less	S
From him she loved in turn	X2
Caught in her sweet unconsciousness	S
What love is quick to learn	X2
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Each grew to each in pleased accord	D3
Nor knew the gazing town	X2
If she looked upward to her lord	D3
Or he to her looked down	X2
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How sweet when summer's day was o'er	A3
His violin's mirth and wail	I2
The walk on pleasant Newbury's shore	E3
The river's moonlit sail	I2
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Ah life is brief though love be long	V
The altar and the bier	F3
The burial hymn and bridal song	V
Were both in one short year	G3
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Her rest is quiet on the hill	I2
Beneath the locust's bloom	T2
Far off her lover sleeps as still	I2
Within his scutcheoned tomb	T2
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The Gascon lord the village maid	C3
In death still clasp their hands	S
The love that levels rank and grade	C3
Unites their severed lands	S
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What matter whose the hillside grave	H3
Or whose the blazoned stone	X2
Forever to her western wave	H3
Shall whisper blue Garonne	X2
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O Love so hallowing every soil	I2
That gives thy sweet flower room	T2
Wherever nursed by ease or toil	I2
The human heart takes bloom	T2
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Plant of lost Eden from the sod	I3
Of sinful earth unriven	X2
White blossom of the trees of God	I3
Dropped down to us from heaven	X2
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This tangled waste of mound and stone	X2
Is holy for thy sale	I2
A sweetness which is all thy own	X2
Breathes out from fern and brake	J3
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And while ancestral pride shall twine	X2
The Gascon's tomb with flowers	S
Fall sweetly here O song of mine	X2
With summer's bloom and showers	S
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And let the lines that severed seem	K3
Unite again in thee	E
As western wave and Gallic stream	K3
Are mingled in one sea	E