As I Walked Out One Evening Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DAEA FBGB GHAH IJKL MNFN OPQR MEME MQKS DTGT UVWV XYDY DZAZ QA2DA2 AB2AC2| As I walked out one evening | A |
| Walking down Bristol Street | B |
| The crowds upon the pavement | C |
| Were fields of harvest wheat | B |
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| And down by the brimming river | D |
| I heard a lover sing | A |
| Under an arch of the railway | E |
| Love has no ending | A |
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| I'll love you dear I'll love you | F |
| Till China and Africa meet | B |
| And the river jumps over the mountain | G |
| And the salmon sing in the street | B |
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| I'll love you till the ocean | G |
| Is folded and hung up to dry | H |
| And the seven stars go squawking | A |
| Like geese about the sky | H |
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| The years shall run like rabbits | I |
| For in my arms I hold | J |
| The Flower of the Ages | K |
| And the first love of the world | L |
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| But all the clocks in the city | M |
| Began to whirr and chime | N |
| O let not Time deceive you | F |
| You cannot conquer Time | N |
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| In the burrows of the Nightmare | O |
| Where Justice naked is | P |
| Time watches from the shadow | Q |
| And coughs when you would kiss | R |
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| In headaches and in worry | M |
| Vaguely life leaks away | E |
| And Time will have his fancy | M |
| To morrow or to day | E |
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| Into many a green valley | M |
| Drifts the appalling snow | Q |
| Time breaks the threaded dances | K |
| And the diver's brilliant bow | S |
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| O plunge your hands in water | D |
| Plunge them in up to the wrist | T |
| Stare stare in the basin | G |
| And wonder what you've missed | T |
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| The glacier knocks in the cupboard | U |
| The desert sighs in the bed | V |
| And the crack in the tea cup opens | W |
| A lane to the land of the dead | V |
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| Where the beggars raffle the banknotes | X |
| And the Giant is enchanting to Jack | Y |
| And the Lily white Boy is a Roarer | D |
| And Jill goes down on her back | Y |
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| O look look in the mirror | D |
| O look in your distress | Z |
| Life remains a blessing | A |
| Although you cannot bless | Z |
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| O stand stand at the window | Q |
| As the tears scald and start | A2 |
| You shall love your crooked neighbour | D |
| With your crooked heart | A2 |
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| It was late late in the evening | A |
| The lovers they were gone | B2 |
| The clocks had ceased their chiming | A |
| And the deep river ran on | C2 |
W. H. Auden
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