By The Weir Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDDC EFEFBDDB GHGHIGGI| A scent of Esparto grass and again I recall | A |
| That hour we spent by the weir of the paper mill | B |
| Watching together the curving thunderous fall | A |
| Of frothing amber bemused by the roar until | B |
| My mind was as blank as the speckless sheets that wound | C |
| On the hot steel ironing rollers perpetually turning | D |
| In the humming dark rooms of the mill all sense and discerning | D |
| By the stunning and dazzling oblivion of hill waters drowned | C |
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| And my heart was empty of memory and hope and desire | E |
| Till rousing I looked afresh on your face as you gazed | F |
| Behind you an old gnarled fruit tree in one still fire | E |
| Of innumerable flame in the sun of October blazed | F |
| Scarlet and gold that the first white frost would spill | B |
| With eddying flicker and patter of dead leaves falling | D |
| looked on your face as an outcast from Eden recalling | D |
| A vision of Eve as she dallied bewildered and still | B |
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| By the serpent encircled tree of knowledge that flamed | G |
| With gold and scarlet of good and evil her eyes | H |
| Rapt on the river of life then bright and untamed | G |
| By the labour and sorrow and fear of a world that dies | H |
| Your ignorant eyes looked up into mine and I knew | I |
| That never our hearts should be one till your young lips had tasted | G |
| The core of the bitter sweet fruit and wise and toil wasted | G |
| You should stand at my shoulder an outcast from Eden too | I |
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
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