To Knole Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCB DEED FGGF HIJH KLLK MMMKKKKK NKKN OKKO MAAM PMMP KQQK| October | A |
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| I | - |
| I left thee in the crowds and in the light | B |
| And if I laughed or sorrowed none could tell | C |
| They could not know our true and deep farewell | C |
| Was spoken in the long preceding night | B |
| - | |
| Thy mighty shadow in the garden's dip | D |
| To others dormant but to me awake | E |
| I saw a window in the moonlight shake | E |
| And traced the angle of the gable's lip | D |
| - | |
| And knew thy soul benign and grave and mild | F |
| Towards me morsel of morality | G |
| And grieving at the parting soon to be | G |
| A patriarch about to lose a child | F |
| - | |
| For many come and soon their tale is told | H |
| And thou remainest dimly feeling pain | I |
| Aware the time draws near to don again | J |
| The sober mourning of the very old | H |
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| II | - |
| Pictures and galleries and empty rooms | K |
| Small wonder that my games were played alone | L |
| Half of the rambling house to call my own | L |
| And wooded gardens with mysterious glooms | K |
| - | |
| My fingers ran among the tassels faded | M |
| My playmates moved in arrases brocaded | M |
| I slept beside the canopied and shaded | M |
| Beds of forgotten kings | K |
| I wandered shoeless in the galleries | K |
| I contemplated long the tapestries | K |
| And loved the ladies for their histories | K |
| And hands with many rings | K |
| - | |
| Beneath an oriel window facing south | N |
| Through which the unniggard sun poured morning streams | K |
| I daily stood and laughing drank the beams | K |
| And catching fistfuls pressed them in my mouth | N |
| - | |
| This I remember and the carven oak | O |
| The long and polished floors the many stairs | K |
| Th' heraldic windows and the velvet chairs | K |
| And portraits that I knew so well they almost spoke | O |
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| III | - |
| So I have loved thee as a lonely child | M |
| Might love the kind and venerable sire | A |
| With whom he lived and whom at youthful fire | A |
| Had ever sagely tolerantly smiled | M |
| - | |
| In whose old weathered brain a boundless store | P |
| Lay hid of riches never to be spent | M |
| Who often to the coaxing child unbent | M |
| In hours' enchantment of delightful lore | P |
| - | |
| So in the night we parted friend of years | K |
| I rose a stranger to thee on the morrow | Q |
| Thy stateliness knows neither joy nor sorrow | Q |
| I will not wound such dignity by tears | K |
Victoria Mary Sackville-west
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