The Country Gods Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGGG HHBBBIIJJKKLLALMMMNN GG OOPPQQRRSS TU| I dwell with all things great and fair | A |
| The green earth and the lustral air | A |
| The sacred spaces of the sea | B |
| Day in day out companion me | B |
| Pure faced pure thoughted folk are mine | C |
| With whom to sit and laugh and dine | C |
| In every sunlit room is heard | D |
| Love singing like an April bird | D |
| And everywhere the moonlit eyes | E |
| Of beauty guard our paradise | F |
| While at the ending of the day | G |
| To the kind country gods we pray | G |
| And dues of our fair living pay | G |
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| Thus when reluctant to the town | H |
| I go with country sunshine brown | H |
| So small and strange all seems to me | B |
| the boonfellow of the sea | B |
| That these town people say and be | B |
| Their insect lives their insect talk | I |
| Their busy little insect walk | I |
| Their busy little insect stings | J |
| And all the while the sea weed swings | J |
| Against the rock and the wide roar | K |
| Rises foam lipped along the shore | K |
| Ah then how good my life I know | L |
| How good it is each day to go | L |
| Where the great voices call and where | A |
| The eternal rhythms flow and flow | L |
| In that august companionship | M |
| The subtle poisoned words that drip | M |
| With guileless guile from friendly lip | M |
| The lie that flits from ear to ear | N |
| Ye shall not speak ye shall not hear | N |
| Nor shall you fear your heart to say | G |
| Lest he who listens shall betray | G |
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| The man who hearkens all day long | O |
| To the sea's cosmic thoughted song | O |
| Comes with purged ears to lesser speech | P |
| And something of the skyey reach | P |
| Greatens the gaze that feeds on space | Q |
| The starlight writes upon his face | Q |
| That bathes in starlight and the morn | R |
| Chrisms with dew when day is born | R |
| The eyes that drink the holy light | S |
| Welling from the deep springs of night | S |
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| And so how good to catch the train | T |
| Back to the country gods again | U |
Richard Le Gallienne
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