Lydd Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEFEFBCGHIJKJLMN NFFFFOMPPOQLQPFRRSTS TPFUUOFOFVWXFFYFYVVZ ZVFVF| For the Reunion of the Bates Family at Quincy August | A |
| FAR away on the sunny levels | B |
| Where Kent lies drowsing beside the sea | C |
| Where over the foxglove as over the foam | D |
| The gray gull sails is our ancient home | D |
| Wide though we wander something follows | E |
| The cradle call from a village hid | F |
| Under the cloud of rooks and swallows | E |
| That love its thatches and orchards Lydd | F |
| Here they sported in rustic revels | B |
| Our sturdy forbears while ale flowed free | C |
| Richard and Susan and Sybil and John | G |
| All their jollity hushed and gone | H |
| Our grandsires proud of their scraps of Latin | I |
| Our grandams 'notable huswifs' all | J |
| We may touch the very settles they sat in | K |
| But they like their shadows upon the wall | J |
| Have slipped from their sweet accustomed places | L |
| Stephen Samuel Ellen Anne | M |
| The pewter flagons they valued so | N |
| Stand though battered in shining row | N |
| But the hands that scoured them long since folded | F |
| Lips that smacked over them long since dust | F |
| Are known no more in the town they molded | F |
| To civic honor and neighbor trust | F |
| Ah for their quaint forgotten graces | O |
| Flushing raptures of maid and man | M |
| James and Alice Thomas and Joan | P |
| Blood of our blood and bone of our bone | P |
| Only the trampled slabs and brasses | O |
| That floor the aisles of the old church tell | Q |
| Their dates and virtues to him who passes | L |
| How long they labored in Lydd how well | Q |
| Their Catholic sins have all been shriven | P |
| And their Puritan righteousness pardoned too | F |
| Lax and merry or holy and harsh | R |
| They have flown to Heaven from Romney Marsh | R |
| Lydia David Joshua Zealous | S |
| 'Katharine Spinster ' yet still on earth | T |
| Their wraiths abide in our being jealous | S |
| For the brief blunt name and its modest worth | T |
| For each of us is phantom driven | P |
| A haunted house where a glimmering crew | F |
| Of dear and queer ancestral ghosts | U |
| Quarrel and match their family boasts | U |
| Color our half and fashion our noses | O |
| Shape the deed and govern the mood | F |
| In every rose are a thousand roses | O |
| Every man is a multitude | F |
| A patchwork we are of antique vagaries | V |
| Primitive passions trouble our pulse | W |
| 'Margery relict of Andrew Bate ' | X |
| Clement Rachel and William hate | F |
| And adore in us No vain sunriser | F |
| In all our clan but he owes the praise | Y |
| To some progenital dew surpriser | F |
| Who knelt to the dawn in pagan days | Y |
| Sailors that steered for the misty Canaries | V |
| Fishers whose feet loved the feel of the dulse | V |
| Agnes Simon Julian George | Z |
| Faithful in kitchen hayfield and forge | Z |
| Give us our dreams our sea love the voices | V |
| That speak in our conscience rebuke and forbid | F |
| Hark In our festal laughter rejoices | V |
| A quavering note from the graves of Lydd | F |
Katharine Lee Bates
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