Ancient Of Days Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEFG AEEEHI JK ELME EAEN| It's Epsom but could pass for Epping | A |
| New Forest or Dumbarton Wood | B |
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| There's ivy of the thickest | C |
| English sort not commonly | D |
| found in America sprigs | E |
| growing across open ground | F |
| mantling it | G |
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| Shiny to the eye soft encircling | A |
| the touch I am reminded of blue waters | E |
| green grass Blake's Ancient of Days | E |
| an old man's beard stepping from the trees | E |
| Spanish Moss so unearthly it covers a | H |
| southern forest | I |
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| There are tendrils in herbal potions of unbroken lips that move | J |
| across both dew and clover | K |
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| I see Druids reciting psalms weaving ivy along garlands | E |
| of oak the incantation set before a British lake | L |
| briar baskets carrying the trusting dead | M |
| food offerings transversing the waters | E |
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| The ivy calls to mind all these things | E |
| just a sprig held tightly yet aromatic beyond imagining | A |
| my timorous English settlers seen thru a spate of leaves | E |
| clutching their holly on Roanoke island | N |
Paul Cameron Brown
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