Cherwell Stream Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLLK| Green banks and gliding river | A |
| What air from what far place | B |
| Comes down your waters' face | B |
| And makes your willows shiver | A |
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| Over me stole a spell | C |
| A breath upon my brow | D |
| Light on my spirit fell | C |
| I knew not whence nor how | D |
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| Faded into a dream | E |
| Are Oxford's spires and towers | F |
| Far down the winding stream | E |
| Beyond the fields and flowers | F |
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| Is it that Nature here | G |
| Finding me thus alone | H |
| Would whisper in my ear | G |
| Some secret of her own | H |
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| Would win her child again | I |
| To these beloved retreats | J |
| Shunned now too long for men | I |
| For throngs and busy streets | J |
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| I know not Round the bend | K |
| The sound of oars comes fast | L |
| My moment's spell is past | L |
| I hear the voice of a friend | K |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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