Bab-lock-hythe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC DCCD DBBD EDDE BBBB BCCB DAAD DFFD CBBC| In the time of wild roses | A |
| As up Thames we travelled | B |
| Where 'mid water weeds ravelled | B |
| The lily uncloses | A |
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| To his old shores the river | C |
| A new song was singing | D |
| And young shoots were springing | D |
| On old roots for ever | C |
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| Dog daisies were dancing | D |
| And flags flamed in cluster | C |
| On the dark stream a lustre | C |
| Now blurred and now glancing | D |
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| A tall reed down weighing | D |
| The sedge warbler fluttered | B |
| One sweet note he uttered | B |
| Then left it soft swaying | D |
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| By the bank's sandy hollow | E |
| My dipt oars went beating | D |
| And past our bows fleeting | D |
| Blue backed shone the swallow | E |
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| High woods heron haunted | B |
| Rose changed as we rounded | B |
| Old hills greenly mounded | B |
| To meadows enchanted | B |
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| A dream ever moulded | B |
| Afresh for our wonder | C |
| Still opening asunder | C |
| For the stream many folded | B |
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| Till sunset was rimming | D |
| The West with pale flushes | A |
| Behind the black rushes | A |
| The last light was dimming | D |
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| And the lonely stream hiding | D |
| Shy birds grew more lonely | F |
| And with us was only | F |
| The noise of our gliding | D |
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| In cloud of gray weather | C |
| The evening o'erdarkened | B |
| In the stillness we hearkened | B |
| Our hearts sang together | C |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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