Lollingdon Downs Viii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDDC EFEGHHHC IIIIIIIC JKLMMMNL| The Kings go by with jewled crowns | A |
| Their horses gleam their banners shake their spears are many | B |
| The sack of many peopled towns | A |
| Is all their dream | C |
| The way they take | D |
| Leaves but a ruin in the brake | D |
| And in the furrow that the plowmen make | D |
| A stampless penny a tale a dream | C |
| - | |
| The Merchants reckon up their gold | E |
| Their letters come their ships arrive their freights are glories | F |
| The profits of their treasures sold | E |
| They tell and sum | G |
| Their foremen drive | H |
| Their servants starved to half alive | H |
| Whose labors do but make the earth a hive | H |
| Of stinking stories a tale a dream | C |
| - | |
| The Priests are singing in their stalls | I |
| Their singing lifts their incense burns their praying clamors | I |
| Yet God is as the sparrow falls | I |
| The ivy drifts | I |
| The votive urns | I |
| Are all left void when Fortune turns | I |
| The god is but a marble for the kerns | I |
| To break with hammers a tale a dream | C |
| - | |
| O Beauty let me know again | J |
| The green earth cold the April rain the quiet waters figuring sky | K |
| The one star risen | L |
| So shall I pass into the feast | M |
| Not touched by King Merchant or Priest | M |
| Know the red spirit of the beast | M |
| Be the green grain | N |
| Escape from prison | L |
John Masefield
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