Exmoor Verses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFEF GHGH IJIJ K LMNM OPQP LRLR S TPTPHUHU VHVHWXWYI 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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