Willaloo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBCDDDCDCCCCCCCEF EEFGGCCCFCFFBBBHIHHJ KKLLKKKKLLLMNNNNFFKK OONNNKKFKFFFFF| By E A P | A |
| In the sad and sodden street | B |
| To and fro | C |
| Flit the fever stricken feet | B |
| Of the freshers as they meet | B |
| Come and go | C |
| Ever buying buying buying | D |
| Where the shopmen stand supplying | D |
| Vying vying | D |
| All they know | C |
| While the Autumn lies a dying | D |
| Sad and low | C |
| As the price of summer suitings when the winter breezes blow | C |
| Of the summer summer suitings that are standing in a row | C |
| On the way to Jericho | C |
| See the freshers as they row | C |
| To and fro | C |
| Up and down the Lower River for an afternoon or so | C |
| For the deft manipulation | E |
| Of the never resting oar | F |
| Though it lead to approbation | E |
| Will induce excoriation | E |
| They are infinitely sore | F |
| Keeping time time time | G |
| In a sort of Runic rhyme | G |
| Up and down the way to Iffley in an afternoon or so | C |
| Which is slow | C |
| Do they blow | C |
| 'Tis the wind and nothing more | F |
| 'Tis the wind that in Vacation has a tendency to go | C |
| But the coach's objurgation and his tendency to 'score' | F |
| Will be sated nevermore | F |
| See the freshers in the street | B |
| The elite | B |
| Their apparel how unquestionably neat | B |
| How delighted at a distance | H |
| Inexpensively attired | I |
| I have wondered with persistence | H |
| At their butterfly existence | H |
| How admired | J |
| And the payment O the payment | K |
| It is tardy for the raiment | K |
| Yet the haberdasher gloats as he sells | L |
| And he tells | L |
| 'This is best | K |
| To be dress'd | K |
| Rather better than the rest | K |
| To be noticeably drest | K |
| To be swells | L |
| To be swells swells swells swells | L |
| Swells swells swells | L |
| To be simply and indisputably swells ' | M |
| See the freshers one or two | N |
| Just a few | N |
| Now on view | N |
| Who are sensibly and innocently new | N |
| How they cluster cluster cluster | F |
| Round the rugged walls of Worcester | F |
| See them stand | K |
| Book in hand | K |
| In the garden ground of John's | O |
| How they dote upon their Dons | O |
| See in every man a Blue | N |
| It is true | N |
| They are lamentably few | N |
| But I spied | K |
| Yesternight upon the staircase just a pair of boots outside | K |
| Upon the floor | F |
| Just a little pair of boots upon the stairs where I reside | K |
| Lying there and nothing more | F |
| And I swore | F |
| While these dainty twins continued sentry by the chamber door | F |
| That the hope their presence planted should be with me evermore | F |
| Should desert me nevermore | F |
Sir Arthur Quiller-couch
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