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