Puck's Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG GHGH HICI JGJG GKGK LHLH HMHM GHGH GNHN OPKPSee you the ferny ride that steals | A |
Into the oak woods far | B |
O that was whence they hewed the keels | A |
That rolled to Trafalgar | C |
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And mark you where the ivy clings | D |
To Bayham's mouldering walls | E |
O there we cast the stout railings | D |
That stand around St Paul's | E |
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See you the dimpled track that runs | F |
All hollow through the wheat | G |
O that was where they hauled the guns | F |
That smote King Philip's fleet | G |
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Out of the Weald the secret Weald | G |
Men sent in ancient years | H |
The horse shoes red at Flodden Field | G |
The arrows at Poitiers | H |
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See you our little mill that clacks | H |
So busy by the brook | I |
She has ground her corn and paid her | C |
Ever since Domesday Book | I |
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See you our stilly woods of oak | J |
And the dread ditch beside | G |
O that was where the Saxons broke | J |
On the day that Harold died | G |
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See you the windy levels spread | G |
About the gates of Rye | K |
O that was where the Northmen fled | G |
When Alfred's ships came by | K |
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See you our pastures wide and lone | L |
Where the red oxen browse | H |
O there was a City thronged and known | L |
Ere London boasted a house | H |
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And see you after rain the trace | H |
Of mound and ditch and wall | M |
O that was a Legion's camping place | H |
When Caesar sailed from Gaul | M |
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And see you marks that show and fade | G |
Like shadows on the Downs | H |
O they are the lines the Flint Men made | G |
To guard their wondrous towns | H |
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Trackway and Camp and City lost | G |
Salt Marsh where now is corn | N |
Old Wars old Peace old Arts that cease | H |
And so was England born | N |
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She is not any common Earth | O |
Water or wood or air | P |
But Merlin's Isle of Gramarye | K |
Where you and I will fare | P |
Rudyard Kipling
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