Exmoor Verses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFEF GHGH IJIJ K LMNM OPQP LRLR S TPTPHUHU VHVHWXWY| I VASHTI'S SONG | A |
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| Over the rim of the Moor | B |
| And under the starry sky | C |
| Two men came to my door | D |
| And rested them thereby | C |
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| Beneath the bough and the star | E |
| In a whispering foreign tongue | F |
| They talked of a land afar | E |
| And the merry days so young | F |
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| Beneath the dawn and the bough | G |
| I heard them arise and go | H |
| And my heart it is aching now | G |
| For the more it will never know | H |
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| Why did they two depart | I |
| Before I could understand | J |
| Where lies that land O my heart | I |
| O my heart where lies that land | J |
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| II SATURN | K |
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| From my farm from h r farm | L |
| Furtively we came | M |
| In either home a hearth was warm | N |
| We nursed a hungrier flame | M |
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| Our feet were foul with mire | O |
| Our faces blind with mist | P |
| But all the night was naked fire | Q |
| About us where we kiss'd | P |
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| To her farm to my farm | L |
| Loathing we returned | R |
| Pale beneath a gallow's arm | L |
| The planet Saturn burned | R |
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| III DERELICTION | S |
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| O'er the tears that we shed dear | T |
| The bitter vines twist | P |
| And the hawk and the red deer | T |
| They keep where we kiss'd | P |
| All broken lies the shieling | H |
| That sheltered from rain | U |
| With a star to pierce the ceiling | H |
| And the dawn an empty pane | U |
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| Thro' the mist up the moorway | V |
| Fade hunters and pack | H |
| From the ridge to thy doorway | V |
| Happy voices float back | H |
| O between the threads o' mist love | W |
| Reach your hands from the house | X |
| Only mind that we kiss'd love | W |
| And forget the broken vows | Y |
Sir Arthur Quiller-couch
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