Chilterns, The Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDD EFGFF HIHII JKJKL MNMNN JOJPO OKOKK OFGGGYour hands my dear adorable | A |
Your lips of tenderness | B |
Oh I've loved you faithfully and well | C |
Three years or a bit less | D |
It wasn't a success | D |
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Thank God that's done and I'll take the road | E |
Quit of my youth and you | F |
The Roman road to Wendover | G |
By Tring and Lilley Hoo | F |
As a free man may do | F |
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For youth goes over the joys that fly | H |
The tears that follow fast | I |
And the dirtiest things we do must lie | H |
Forgotten at the last | I |
Even Love goes past | I |
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What's left behind I shall not find | J |
The splendour and the pain | K |
The splash of sun the shouting wind | J |
And the brave sting of rain | K |
I may not meet again | L |
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But the years that take the best away | M |
Give something in the end | N |
And a better friend than love have they | M |
For none to mar or mend | N |
That have themselves to friend | N |
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I shall desire and I shall find | J |
The best of my desires | O |
The autumn road the mellow wind | J |
That soothes the darkening shires | P |
And laughter and inn fires | O |
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White mist about the black hedgerows | O |
The slumbering Midland plain | K |
The silence where the clover grows | O |
And the dead leaves in the lane | K |
Certainly these remain | K |
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And I shall find some girl perhaps | O |
And a better one than you | F |
With eyes as wise but kindlier | G |
And lips as soft but true | G |
And I daresay she will do | G |
Rupert Brooke
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