A Boy In Church Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC BABADD BEBEFG BHBHIJ KLKLKK| Gabble gabble brethren gabble gabble | A |
| My window frames forest and heather | B |
| I hardly hear the tuneful babble | A |
| Not knowing nor much caring whether | B |
| The text is praise or exhortation | C |
| Prayer or thanksgiving or damnation | C |
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| Outside it blows wetter and wetter | B |
| The tossing trees never stay still | A |
| I shift my elbows to catch better | B |
| The full round sweep of heathered hill | A |
| The tortured copse bends to and fro | D |
| In silence like a shadow show | D |
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| The parson's voice runs like a river | B |
| Over smooth rocks I like this church | E |
| The pews are staid they never shiver | B |
| They never bend or sway or lurch | E |
| Prayer says the kind voice is a chain | F |
| That draws down Grace from Heaven again | G |
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| I add the hymns up over and over | B |
| Until there's not the least mistake | H |
| Seven seventy one Look there's a plover | B |
| It's gone Who's that Saint by the lake | H |
| The red light from his mantle passes | I |
| Across the broad memorial brasses | J |
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| It's pleasant here for dreams and thinking | K |
| Lolling and letting reason nod | L |
| With ugly serious people linking | K |
| Sad prayers to a forgiving God | L |
| But a dumb blast sets the trees swaying | K |
| With furious zeal like madmen praying | K |
Robert Graves
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