The Foresters Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFAAGHIG JJKKLMNN| Clear as of old the great voice rings to day | A |
| While Sherwood's oak leaves twine with Aldworth's bay | A |
| The voice of him the master and the sire | B |
| Of one whole age and legion of the lyre | C |
| Who sang his morning song when Coleridge still | D |
| Uttered dark oracles from Highgate Hill | D |
| And with new launch d argosies of rhyme | E |
| Gilds and makes brave this sombreing tide of time | E |
| Far be the hour when lesser brows shall wear | F |
| The laurel glorious from that wintry hair | F |
| When he the sovereign of our lyric day | A |
| In Charon's shallop must be rowed away | A |
| And hear scarce heeding 'mid the plash of oar | G |
| The | H |
| ave atque vale | I |
| from the shore | G |
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| To him nor tender nor heroic muse | J |
| Did her divine confederacy refuse | J |
| To all its moods the lyre of life he strung | K |
| And notes of death fell deathless from his tongue | K |
| Himself the Merlin of his magic strain | L |
| He bade old glories break in gloom again | M |
| And so exempted from oblivious doom | N |
| Through him these days shall fadeless break in bloom | N |
William Watson
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