Puck's Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG GHGH HICI JGJG GKGK LHLH HMHM GHGH GNHN OPKP

See you the ferny ride that stealsA
Into the oak woods farB
O that was whence they hewed the keelsA
That rolled to TrafalgarC
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And mark you where the ivy clingsD
To Bayham's mouldering wallsE
O there we cast the stout railingsD
That stand around St Paul'sE
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See you the dimpled track that runsF
All hollow through the wheatG
O that was where they hauled the gunsF
That smote King Philip's fleetG
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Out of the Weald the secret WealdG
Men sent in ancient yearsH
The horse shoes red at Flodden FieldG
The arrows at PoitiersH
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See you our little mill that clacksH
So busy by the brookI
She has ground her corn and paid herC
Ever since Domesday BookI
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See you our stilly woods of oakJ
And the dread ditch besideG
O that was where the Saxons brokeJ
On the day that Harold diedG
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See you the windy levels spreadG
About the gates of RyeK
O that was where the Northmen fledG
When Alfred's ships came byK
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See you our pastures wide and loneL
Where the red oxen browseH
O there was a City thronged and knownL
Ere London boasted a houseH
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And see you after rain the traceH
Of mound and ditch and wallM
O that was a Legion's camping placeH
When Caesar sailed from GaulM
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And see you marks that show and fadeG
Like shadows on the DownsH
O they are the lines the Flint Men madeG
To guard their wondrous townsH
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Trackway and Camp and City lostG
Salt Marsh where now is cornN
Old Wars old Peace old Arts that ceaseH
And so was England bornN
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She is not any common EarthO
Water or wood or airP
But Merlin's Isle of GramaryeK
Where you and I will fareP

Rudyard Kipling



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