Ryton Firs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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The DreamA
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All round the knoll on days of quietest airB
Secrets are being told and if the treesC
Speak out let them make uproar loud as drumsD
'Tis secrets still shouted instead of whisper'dE
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There must have been a warning given onceF
No tree on pain of withering and sawflyG
To reach the slimmest of his snaky toesH
Into this mounded sward and rumple itI
All trees stand back taboo is on this soilG
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The trees have always scrupulously obeyedJ
The grass that elsewhere grows as best it mayK
Under the larches countable long nesh bladesL
Here in clear sky pads the ground thick and closeM
As wool upon a Southdown wether's backN
And as in Southdown wool your hand must sinkO
Up to the wrist before it find the rootsP
A bed for summer afternoons this grassQ
But in the Spring not too softly entanglingR
For lively feet to dance on when the greenS
Flashes with daffodils From Marcle wayK
From Dymock Kempley Newent BromesberrowB
Redmarley all the meadowland daffodils seemA
Running in golden tides to Ryton FirsT
To make the knot of steep little wooded hillsU
Their brightest show O bella et de l'oroB
Now I breathe you again my woods of RytonV
Not only golden with your daffodil firesT
Lying in pools on the loose dusky groundW
Beneath the larches tumbling in broad riversT
Down sloping grass under the cherry treesC
And birches but among your branches clingingR
A mist of that Ferrara gold I firstX
Loved in the easy hours then green with youY
And as I stroll about you now I haveZ
Accompanying me like troops of lads and lassesC
Chattering and dancing in a shining fortuneV
Those mornings when your alleys of long lightA2
And your brown rosin scented shadows wereB
Enchanted with the laughter of my boysC
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The Voices in the DreamA
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Follow my heart my dancing feetB2
Dance as blithe as my heart can beatB2
Only can dancing understandC2
What a heavenly way we passC
Treading the green and golden landC2
Daffodillies and grassC
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I had a song too on my roadD2
But mine was in my eyesC
For Malvern Hills were with me all the wayK
Singing loveliest visible melodiesC
Blue as a south sea bayK
And ruddy as wine of FranceC
Breadths of new turn'd ploughland under them glowedD2
'Twas my heart then must danceC
To dwell in my delightA2
No need to sing when all in song my sightA2
Moved over hills so musically madeJ
And with such colour playedJ
And only yesterday it was I sawC
Veil'd in streamers of grey wavering smokeE2
My shapely Malvern HillsC
That was the last hail storm to trouble springR
He came in gloomy hasteF2
Pusht in front of the white clouds quietly baskingR
In such a hurry he tript against the hillsC
And stumbling forward spilt over his shouldersC
All his black baggage heldG2
Streaking downpour of hailG
Then fled dismayed and the sun in golden gleeG
And the high white clouds laught down his dusky ghostH2
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For all that's left of winterB
Is moisture in the groundW
When I came down the valley last the sunV
Just thawed the grass and made me gentle turfI2
But still the frost was bony underneathJ2
Now moles take burrowing jaunts abroad and plyG
Their shovelling hands in earthK2
As nimbly as the strokesC
Of a swimmer in a long dive under waterB
The meadows in the sun are twice as greenS
For all the scatter of fresh red mounded earthK2
The mischief of the molesC
No dullish red Glostershire earth new delvedL2
In April And I think shows fairest whereB
These rummaging small rogues have been at workM2
If you will look the way the sunlight slantsC
Making the grass one great green gem of lightA2
Bright earth crimson and evenN2
Scarlet everywhere tracksC
The rambling underground affairs of molesC
Though 'tis but kestrel bayK
Looking against the sunV
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But here's the happiest light can lie on groundW
Grass sloping under treesC
Alive with yellow shine of daffodilsC
If quicksilver were goldO2
And troubled pools of it shaking in the sunV
It were not such a fancy of bickering gleamA
As Ryton daffodils when the air but stirsC
And all the miles and miles of meadowlandC2
The spring makes golden waysC
Lead here for here the goldO2
Grows brightest for our eyesC
And for our hearts lovelier even than loveP2
So here each spring our daffodil festivalG
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How smooth and quick the yearB
Spins me the seasons roundW
How many days have slid across my mindQ2
Since we had snow pitying the frozen groundW
Then winter sunshine cheeredR2
The bitter skies the snowB
Reluctantly obeying lofty windsC
Drew off in shining cloudsC
Wishing it still might loveP2
With its white mercy the cold earth beneathJ2
But when the beautiful groundW
Lights upward all the airB
Noon thaws the frozen eavesC
And makes the rime on post and paling steamA
Silvery blue smoke in the golden dayK
And soon from loaded trees in noiseless woodsC
The snows slip thudding downS2
Scattering in their trailG
Bright icy sparkles through the glittering airB
And the fir branches patiently bent so longT2
Sigh as they lift themselves to rights againU2
Then warm moist hours steal inN2
Such as can draw the year'sC
First fragrance from the sap of cherry woodV2
Or from the leaves of budless violetsC
And travellers in lanesC
Catch the hot tawny smellG
Reynard's damp fur left as he sneakt maraudingR
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Across from gap to gapW2
And in the larch woods on the highest boughsC
The long eared owls like grey cats sitting stillG
Peer down to quiz the passengers belowB
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Light has killed the winter and all dark dreamsC
Now winds live all in lightA2
Light has come down to earth and blossoms hereB
And we have golden mindsC
From out the long shade of a road high banktA2
I came on shelving fieldsC
And from my feet cascadingR
Streaming down the landA2
Flickering lavish of daffodils flowed and fellG
Like sunlight on a water thrill'd with hasteA2
Such clear pale quivering flameX2
But a flame even more marvellously yellowB
And all the way to Ryton here I walktA2
Ankle deep in lightA2
It was as if the world had just begunV
And in a mind new madeA2
Of shadowless delightA2
My spirit drank my flashing senses inN2
And gloried to be madeA2
Of young mortalityA2
No darker joy than thisC
Golden amazement nowY2
Shall dare intrude into our dazzling livesC
Stain were it now to knowB
Mists of sweet warmth and deep delicious colourB
Those lovable accomplices that comeZ2
Befriending languid hoursC

Lascelles Abercrombie



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