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