Almer Mater Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB CDCDEDAFAFAFDGDGDG HIHIHIAJ AJAJ KLKMKM ADADADAN ANAN

Know you her secret none can utterA
Hers of the Book the tripled CrownB
Still on the spire the pigeons flutterA
Still by the gateway flits the gownB
Still on the street from corbel and gutterA
Faces of stone look downB
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Faces of stone and stonier facesC
Some from library windows wanD
Forth on her gardens her green spacesC
Peer and turn to their books anonD
Hence my Muse from the green oasesE
Gather the tent begoneD
Nay should she by the pavement lingerA
Under the rooms where once she playedF
Who from the feast would rise to fling herA
One poor sou for her serenadeF
One short laugh for the antic fingerA
Thrumming a lute string frayedF
Once my dear but the world was young thenD
Magdalen elms and Trinity limesG
Lissom the blades and the backs that swung thenD
Eight good men in the good old timesG
Careless we and the chorus flung thenD
Under St Mary's chimesG
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Reins lay loose and the ways led randomH
Christ Church meadow and Iffley trackI
'Idleness horrid and dog cart' tandemH
Aylesbury grind and Bicester packI
Pleasant our lines and faith we scanned 'emH
Having that artless knackI
Come old limmer the times grow colderA
Leaves of the creeper redden and fallJ
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Was it a hand then clapped my shoulderA
Only the wind by the chapel wallJ
Dead leaves drift on the lute So fold herA
Under the faded shawlJ
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Never we wince though none deplore usK
We who go reaping that we sowedL
Cities at cock crow wake before usK
Hey for the lilt of the London roadM
One look back and a rousing chorusK
Never a palinodeM
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Still on her spire the pigeons hoverA
Still by her gateway haunts the gownD
Ah but her secret You young loverA
Drumming her old ones forth from townD
Know you the secret none discoverA
Tell it when you go downD
Yet if at length you seek her prove herA
Lean to her whispers never so nighN
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Yet if at last not less her loverA
You in your hansom leave the HighN
Down from her towers a ray shall hoverA
Touch you a passer byN

Sir Arthur Quiller-couch



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