To Robert Nichols Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB AADDEAEBBAFGDEHIIGEE IJJGG| From Frise on the Somme in February in answer | A |
| to a letter saying I am just finishing my 'Faun's | B |
| Holiday ' I wish you were here to feed him with | C |
| cherries | B |
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| Here by a snowbound river | A |
| In scrapen holes we shiver | A |
| And like old bitterns we | D |
| Boom to you plaintively | D |
| Robert how can I rhyme | E |
| Verses for your desire | A |
| Sleek fauns and cherry time | E |
| Vague music and green trees | B |
| Hot sun and gentle breeze | B |
| England in June attire | A |
| And life born young again | F |
| For your gay goatish brute | G |
| Drunk with warm melody | D |
| Singing on beds of thyme | E |
| With red and rolling eye | H |
| All the Devonian plain | I |
| Lips dark with juicy stain | I |
| Ears hung with bobbing fruit | G |
| Why should I keep him time | E |
| Why in this cold and rime | E |
| Where even to dream is pain | I |
| No Robert there's no reason | J |
| Cherries are out of season | J |
| Ice grips at branch and root | G |
| And singing birds are mute | G |
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