Merrow Down Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGFG HIHI DJDJ DKHK A HLAL MKMK NOPO DPDP QHQH| I | A |
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| There runs a road by Merrow Down | B |
| A grassy track to day it is | C |
| An hour out Guildford town | B |
| Above the river Wey it is | C |
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| Here when they heard the hors bells ring | D |
| The ancient Britons dressed and rode | E |
| To which the dark Phoenicians bring | D |
| Their goods along the Western Road | E |
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| Yes here or hereabouts they met | F |
| To hold their racial talks and such | G |
| To barter beads for Whitby jet | F |
| And tin for gay shell torques and such | G |
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| But long ago before that time | H |
| When bison used to roam on it | I |
| Did Taffy and her Daddy climb | H |
| That Down and had their home on it | I |
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| Then beavers built in Broadstonebrook | D |
| And made a swamp where Bramley stands | J |
| And bears from Shere would come and look | D |
| For Taffimai where Shamley stands | J |
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| The Wey that Taffy called Wagai | D |
| Was more than six times bigger then | K |
| And all the Tribe of Tegumai | H |
| They cut a noble figure then | K |
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| II | A |
| - | |
| Of all the Tribe of Tegumai | H |
| Who cut that figure none remain | L |
| On Merrow Down the cuckoos cry | A |
| The silence and the sun remain | L |
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| But as the faithful years return | M |
| And hearts unwounded sing again | K |
| Comes Taffy dancing through the fern | M |
| To lead the Surrey spring again | K |
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| Her brows are bound with bracken fronds | N |
| And golden elf locks fly above | O |
| Her eyes are bright as diamonds | P |
| And bluer than the sky above | O |
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| In moccasins and deer skin cloak | D |
| Unfearing free and fair she flits | P |
| And lights her little damp wood smoke | D |
| To show her Daddy where she flits | P |
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| For far oh very far behind | Q |
| So far she cannot call to him | H |
| Comes Tegumai alone to find | Q |
| The daughter that was all to him | H |
Rudyard Kipling
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