Almer Mater Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB CDCDEDAFAFAFDGDGDG HIHIHIAJ AJAJ KLKMKM ADADADAN ANAN| Know you her secret none can utter | A |
| Hers of the Book the tripled Crown | B |
| Still on the spire the pigeons flutter | A |
| Still by the gateway flits the gown | B |
| Still on the street from corbel and gutter | A |
| Faces of stone look down | B |
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| Faces of stone and stonier faces | C |
| Some from library windows wan | D |
| Forth on her gardens her green spaces | C |
| Peer and turn to their books anon | D |
| Hence my Muse from the green oases | E |
| Gather the tent begone | D |
| Nay should she by the pavement linger | A |
| Under the rooms where once she played | F |
| Who from the feast would rise to fling her | A |
| One poor sou for her serenade | F |
| One short laugh for the antic finger | A |
| Thrumming a lute string frayed | F |
| Once my dear but the world was young then | D |
| Magdalen elms and Trinity limes | G |
| Lissom the blades and the backs that swung then | D |
| Eight good men in the good old times | G |
| Careless we and the chorus flung then | D |
| Under St Mary's chimes | G |
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| Reins lay loose and the ways led random | H |
| Christ Church meadow and Iffley track | I |
| 'Idleness horrid and dog cart' tandem | H |
| Aylesbury grind and Bicester pack | I |
| Pleasant our lines and faith we scanned 'em | H |
| Having that artless knack | I |
| Come old limmer the times grow colder | A |
| Leaves of the creeper redden and fall | J |
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| Was it a hand then clapped my shoulder | A |
| Only the wind by the chapel wall | J |
| Dead leaves drift on the lute So fold her | A |
| Under the faded shawl | J |
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| Never we wince though none deplore us | K |
| We who go reaping that we sowed | L |
| Cities at cock crow wake before us | K |
| Hey for the lilt of the London road | M |
| One look back and a rousing chorus | K |
| Never a palinode | M |
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| Still on her spire the pigeons hover | A |
| Still by her gateway haunts the gown | D |
| Ah but her secret You young lover | A |
| Drumming her old ones forth from town | D |
| Know you the secret none discover | A |
| Tell it when you go down | D |
| Yet if at length you seek her prove her | A |
| Lean to her whispers never so nigh | N |
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| Yet if at last not less her lover | A |
| You in your hansom leave the High | N |
| Down from her towers a ray shall hover | A |
| Touch you a passer by | N |
Sir Arthur Quiller-couch
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