A Ballad Of The Heather Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB BCBCBC DEDEDE FGFGFG ABABAB EBEBEB FHIHFH DJDJDJ JEJEJE EEEEEE ABABAB| We spent a day together | A |
| One day of all our lives | B |
| Of love in cloudless weather | A |
| Such only youth contrives | B |
| One day in the red heather | A |
| Alone with our two lives | B |
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| The tall grey rocks were near us | B |
| The birch trees lent us shade | C |
| The moorfowl did not fear us | B |
| Nor was the fox afraid | C |
| No other life was near us | B |
| Of matron man or maid | C |
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| The glory of the morning | D |
| Had made our pulses beat | E |
| The dangers we were scorning | D |
| The pleadings of retreat | E |
| Her mother's eyes of warning | D |
| The foes that we might meet | E |
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| Earth's silence was our token | F |
| The sunlight on the hill | G |
| We whispered things unspoken | F |
| We stopped and gazed our fill | G |
| The stillness was not broken | F |
| Save thus at our own will | G |
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| We sat down by the water | A |
| A green and quiet place | B |
| She ate what I had brought her | A |
| When she had said her grace | B |
| She was Eve's fairest daughter | A |
| I kneeled and kissed her face | B |
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| O Love what deeds thou darest | E |
| When truth is on thy lips | B |
| What royal robes thou wearest | E |
| What wealth is in thy ships | B |
| What glories thou declarest | E |
| With thy mad finger tips | B |
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| We called on the high Heaven | F |
| In witness of our troth | H |
| From morning until even | I |
| While time was little loath | H |
| To give and be forgiven | F |
| The dear love in us both | H |
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| Aloft the raven scouting | D |
| Gave warning to the glen | J |
| We heard a sound of shouting | D |
| The tramp of angry men | J |
| No time was there for doubting | D |
| And I was one to ten | J |
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| I hid her in the braken | J |
| A brood bird on its nest | E |
| She wept as one forsaken | J |
| And held me to her breast | E |
| We dared not thus be taken | J |
| I fled for it was best | E |
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| They passed her by unheeded | E |
| They hunted me in sight | E |
| I lured them while she needed | E |
| A lapwing feigning flight | E |
| Then o'er the hills I speeded | E |
| And left them to the night | E |
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| Alas dear love together | A |
| No more in all our lives | B |
| Shall we in cloudless weather | A |
| Outwitting maids and wives | B |
| Take joy of the red heather | A |
| And love and our two lives | B |
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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