We Climbed That Hill, Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCDECDFGGDFHHIJK LLMNNMDMDOPPQQKRRDDD MSSBTBTBUUTAADDIIVWD WDXDYYFZIIFA2B2B2C2Z ZKA2D2D2QE2KDF2G2G2F 2OG2QH2QQIIC2I2J2I2K 2ZK2JL2L2ZZM2N2O2A2I P2P2A2| We climbed that hill | A |
| The road flushed red in pride | B |
| At being beauty's boundary Either side | B |
| Stretched beauty beauty ever beauty still | A |
| For on the left | C |
| Rose sandhills bound together by the deft | C |
| Long fingers of sea grass | D |
| Humped like the Punch and Judy of a farce | E |
| Comical cleft | C |
| With gaps for wind to pass | D |
| Spotted | F |
| With dark | G |
| Clumped tea tree stark | G |
| With rushes fierce with burrs | D |
| Blotted | F |
| With purple earth | H |
| Stains remnants marks of birth | H |
| On too exuberant beauty | I |
| On the right | J |
| Long paddocks stooped under a cloudy sky | K |
| 'They're lovely paddocks Look at them ' you said | L |
| I turned my head | L |
| What I'd thought gray | M |
| Was seen | N |
| To be the young beginning of live green | N |
| Under a spray | M |
| Of ghostly weed stalks lilacs mauves and blues | D |
| At interplay | M |
| A delicate tracery of shadow hues | D |
| 'There's colour ' I began | O |
| And straightway knew | P |
| I saw what you | P |
| Saw not and yet your vision was not mine | Q |
| Your eyes were on the line | Q |
| The sweep and curve of the fields against the sky | K |
| You'd heard | R |
| My poor beginning of a word | R |
| I had no more to praise | D |
| An unfamiliar loveliness To gaze | D |
| Was all my praise | D |
| At the hilltop it was your turn to say | M |
| 'There's colour ' You had found | S |
| Silver and gold on my Tom Tiddler's ground | S |
| At the roadside | B |
| A clump of grasses all | T |
| Caught round a little bush and tangled tied | B |
| With unimagined colours people call | T |
| Green when they see them This was treasure spied | B |
| By your eyes with my soul | U |
| You'd liked the whole | U |
| Broad sweep of things had scarcely seen such small | T |
| Jewel incidents until | A |
| I showed you who had never watched a hill | A |
| Remote in contemplation 'neath far far skies | D |
| Except with eyes | D |
| That had no mind to see | I |
| A present beauty only what might be | I |
| If distance were annihilate | V |
| And then | W |
| Where the road crossed the creek we could not cross | D |
| We found again | W |
| Our power of sight redoubled by the loss | D |
| Of what I'd planned | X |
| You said it was no sense | D |
| To pull off shoes and fasten up a skirt | Y |
| And plunge through dirt | Y |
| And mud | F |
| And water water | Z |
| Muddy | I |
| Ruddy | I |
| As zinnias and paint water and a flood | F |
| Of heavy auburn hair We'd better go | A2 |
| Round by the beach | B2 |
| Not by the cliffs to reach | B2 |
| That farthest cliff | C2 |
| I wanted to see tower | Z |
| Above the waves in colour and in power | Z |
| More solid than the sky | K |
| And so | A2 |
| We turned | D2 |
| Seaward among the sea grass I had learned | D2 |
| Some of your alien sense of beauty line | Q |
| Preferred to colour distance to the near | E2 |
| For it was I | K |
| Who saw | D |
| The lovely curve of the creek | F2 |
| But the whole shore | G2 |
| Yellow untrodden more | G2 |
| The loveliest thing of our whole lovely week | F2 |
| For subtle curve unbroken surface than | O |
| For colour this wide shore | G2 |
| Was yours and mine | Q |
| And yours and mine the foam | H2 |
| When it would shine | Q |
| Flower coloured in a glint of sun But mine | Q |
| The hurry | I |
| And swift scurry | I |
| Of wind blown tea tree up the cliff | C2 |
| We gave | I2 |
| A double dower | J2 |
| Of beauty to each wave | I2 |
| That trailed its hair in the wind before it broke | K2 |
| For all the power | Z |
| Of alien philosophies awoke | K2 |
| Our power of sight | J |
| You still proclaim the far | L2 |
| Eternal unity of things that are | L2 |
| Like Plato and the mountains I prefer | Z |
| Inchoate beauty for my part aver | Z |
| Plurality essential am content | M2 |
| To find a gain in difference in a while | N2 |
| Admit there's gain in union Argument | O2 |
| Recurs Oh well at any rate we know | A2 |
| That walk was lovely | I |
| Ecstasies of mind | P2 |
| And subtle mysteries of sight combined | P2 |
| With the dear love of friends to make it so | A2 |
Lesbia Harford
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