Lines Written In The Belief That The Ancient Roman Festival Of The Dead Was Called Ambarvalia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKAK CLMN KONO AKPK MKKK IQRQ MSKS KTKT UKUK KMAM VWCW UKUK MKXK VKUK JYRA| Swings the way still by hollow and hill | A |
| And all the world's a song | B |
| She's far it sings me but fair it rings me | C |
| Quiet it laughs and strong | B |
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| Oh spite of the miles and years between us | D |
| Spite of your chosen part | E |
| I do remember and I go | F |
| With laughter in my heart | E |
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| So above the little folk that know not | G |
| Out of the white hill town | H |
| High up I clamber and I remember | I |
| And watch the day go down | H |
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| Gold is my heart and the world's golden | J |
| And one peak tipped with light | K |
| And the air lies still about the hill | A |
| With the first fear of night | K |
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| Till mystery down the soundless valley | C |
| Thunders and dark is here | L |
| And the wind blows and the light goes | M |
| And the night is full of fear | N |
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| And I know one night on some far height | K |
| In the tongue I never knew | O |
| I yet shall hear the tidings clear | N |
| From them that were friends of you | O |
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| They'll call the news from hill to hill | A |
| Dark and uncomforted | K |
| Earth and sky and the winds and I | P |
| Shall know that you are dead | K |
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| I shall not hear your trentals | M |
| Nor eat your arval bread | K |
| For the kin of you will surely do | K |
| Their duty by the dead | K |
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| Their little dull greasy eyes will water | I |
| They'll paw you and gulp afresh | Q |
| They'll sniffle and weep and their thoughts will creep | R |
| Like flies on the cold flesh | Q |
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| They will put pence on your grey eyes | M |
| Bind up your fallen chin | S |
| And lay you straight the fools that loved you | K |
| Because they were your kin | S |
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| They will praise all the bad about you | K |
| And hush the good away | T |
| And wonder how they'll do without you | K |
| And then they'll go away | T |
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| But quieter than one sleeping | U |
| And stranger than of old | K |
| You will not stir for weeping | U |
| You will not mind the cold | K |
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| But through the night the lips will laugh not | K |
| The hands will be in place | M |
| And at length the hair be lying still | A |
| About the quiet face | M |
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| With snuffle and sniff and handkerchief | V |
| And dim and decorous mirth | W |
| With ham and sherry they'll meet to bury | C |
| The lordliest lass of earth | W |
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| The little dead hearts will tramp ungrieving | U |
| Behind lone riding you | K |
| The heart so high the heart so living | U |
| Heart that they never knew | K |
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| I shall not hear your trentals | M |
| Nor eat your arval bread | K |
| Nor with smug breath tell lies of death | X |
| To the unanswering dead | K |
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| With snuffle and sniff and handkerchief | V |
| The folk who loved you not | K |
| Will bury you and go wondering | U |
| Back home And you will rot | K |
| - | |
| But laughing and half way up to heaven | J |
| With wind and hill and star | Y |
| I yet shall keep before I sleep | R |
| Your Ambarvalia | A |
Rupert Brooke
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