Old Vicarage, The - Grantchester Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFGHDDIIJ KLLMMNNOOPPQQPP RRSSPPTTDDUUVVRRWWXX YYUUZZPPDDPPA2A2B2B2 C2C2 P PPDDD2E2RRF2F2G2G2PP H2H2I2I2J2J2K2K2L2L2 M2M2BBRRA2A2BBFFZZN2 N2O2O2NN RRPPP2P2E2E2BBNNH2F2 PPF2F2F2F2Q2Q2R2R2H2 H2| Cafe des Westens Berlin May | A |
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| Just now the lilac is in bloom | B |
| All before my little room | B |
| And in my flower beds I think | C |
| Smile the carnation and the pink | C |
| And down the borders well I know | D |
| The poppy and the pansy blow | D |
| Oh there the chestnuts summer through | E |
| Beside the river make for you | E |
| A tunnel of green gloom and sleep | F |
| Deeply above and green and deep | F |
| The stream mysterious glides beneath | G |
| Green as a dream and deep as death | H |
| Oh damn I know it and I know | D |
| How the May fields all golden show | D |
| And when the day is young and sweet | I |
| Gild gloriously the bare feet | I |
| That run to bathe | J |
| Du lieber Gott ' | - |
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| Here am I sweating sick and hot | K |
| And there the shadowed waters fresh | L |
| Lean up to embrace the naked flesh | L |
| Temperamentvoll German Jews | M |
| Drink beer around and THERE the dews | M |
| Are soft beneath a morn of gold | N |
| Here tulips bloom as they are told | N |
| Unkempt about those hedges blows | O |
| An English unofficial rose | O |
| And there the unregulated sun | P |
| Slopes down to rest when day is done | P |
| And wakes a vague unpunctual star | Q |
| A slippered Hesper and there are | Q |
| Meads towards Haslingfield and Coton | P |
| Where das Betreten's not verboten | P |
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| ei' qe genoi mhn would I were | R |
| In Grantchester in Grantchester | R |
| Some it may be can get in touch | S |
| With Nature there or Earth or such | S |
| And clever modern men have seen | P |
| A Faun a peeping through the green | P |
| And felt the Classics were not dead | T |
| To glimpse a Naiad's reedy head | T |
| Or hear the Goat foot piping low | D |
| But these are things I do not know | D |
| I only know that you may lie | U |
| Day long and watch the Cambridge sky | U |
| And flower lulled in sleepy grass | V |
| Hear the cool lapse of hours pass | V |
| Until the centuries blend and blur | R |
| In Grantchester in Grantchester | R |
| Still in the dawnlit waters cool | W |
| His ghostly Lordship swims his pool | W |
| And tries the strokes essays the tricks | X |
| Long learnt on Hellespont or Styx | X |
| Dan Chaucer hears his river still | Y |
| Chatter beneath a phantom mill | Y |
| Tennyson notes with studious eye | U |
| How Cambridge waters hurry by | U |
| And in that garden black and white | Z |
| Creep whispers through the grass all night | Z |
| And spectral dance before the dawn | P |
| A hundred Vicars down the lawn | P |
| Curates long dust will come and go | D |
| On lissom clerical printless toe | D |
| And oft between the boughs is seen | P |
| The sly shade of a Rural Dean | P |
| Till at a shiver in the skies | A2 |
| Vanishing with Satanic cries | A2 |
| The prim ecclesiastic rout | B2 |
| Leaves but a startled sleeper out | B2 |
| Grey heavens the first bird's drowsy calls | C2 |
| The falling house that never falls | C2 |
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| epsilon iota' theta epsilon gamma epsilon nu omicron iota mu eta nu | P |
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| G od I will pack and take a train | P |
| And get me to England once again | P |
| For England's the one land I know | D |
| Where men with Splendid Hearts may go | D |
| And Cambridgeshire of all England | D2 |
| The shire for Men who Understand | E2 |
| And of THAT district I prefer | R |
| The lovely hamlet Grantchester | R |
| For Cambridge people rarely smile | F2 |
| Being urban squat and packed with guile | F2 |
| And Royston men in the far South | G2 |
| Are black and fierce and strange of mouth | G2 |
| At Over they fling oaths at one | P |
| And worse than oaths at Trumpington | P |
| And Ditton girls are mean and dirty | H2 |
| And there's none in Harston under thirty | H2 |
| And folks in Shelford and those parts | I2 |
| Have twisted lips and twisted hearts | I2 |
| And Barton men make Cockney rhymes | J2 |
| And Coton's full of nameless crimes | J2 |
| And things are done you'd not believe | K2 |
| At Madingley on Christmas Eve | K2 |
| Strong men have run for miles and miles | L2 |
| When one from Cherry Hinton smiles | L2 |
| Strong men have blanched and shot their wives | M2 |
| Rather than send them to St Ives | M2 |
| Strong men have cried like babes bydam | B |
| To hear what happened at Babraham | B |
| But Grantchester ah Grantchester | R |
| There's peace and holy quiet there | R |
| Great clouds along pacific skies | A2 |
| And men and women with straight eyes | A2 |
| Lithe children lovelier than a dream | B |
| A bosky wood a slumbrous stream | B |
| And little kindly winds that creep | F |
| Round twilight corners half asleep | F |
| In Grantchester their skins are white | Z |
| They bathe by day they bathe by night | Z |
| The women there do all they ought | N2 |
| The men observe the Rules of Thought | N2 |
| They love the Good they worship Truth | O2 |
| They laugh uproariously in youth | O2 |
| And when they get to feeling old | N |
| They up and shoot themselves I'm told | N |
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| Ah God to see the branches stir | R |
| Across the moon at Grantchester | R |
| To smell the thrilling sweet and rotten | P |
| Unforgettable unforgotten | P |
| River smell and hear the breeze | P2 |
| Sobbing in the little trees | P2 |
| Say do the elm clumps greatly stand | E2 |
| Still guardians of that holy land | E2 |
| The chestnuts shade in reverend dream | B |
| The yet unacademic stream | B |
| Is dawn a secret shy and cold | N |
| Anadyomene silver gold | N |
| And sunset still a golden sea | H2 |
| From Haslingfield to Madingley | F2 |
| And after ere the night is born | P |
| Do hares come out about the corn | P |
| Oh is the water sweet and cool | F2 |
| Gentle and brown above the pool | F2 |
| And laughs the immortal river still | F2 |
| Under the mill under the mill | F2 |
| Say is there Beauty yet to find | Q2 |
| And Certainty and Quiet kind | Q2 |
| Deep meadows yet for to forget | R2 |
| The lies and truths and pain oh yet | R2 |
| Stands the Church clock at ten to three | H2 |
| And is there honey still for tea | H2 |
Rupert Brooke
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