First Rhymes

Edmund Blunden 1896 (London) – 1974 (Long Melford)



In the meadow by the mill
I'd make my ballad,
Tunes to that would whistle shrill
And beat the blackbird's ringing bill.—
But surely the innocent spring has died,
The sultry noon has hushed the bird,
The jingling word, the tune untried,
All in that meadow must have died.—
For that, the fuller speech of song
Has charmed me,
And lulled my lonely hours along;
Though beauty's truth that leads to-day
My longing trials
Shone then like dewdrops in my way,
When ' Nature painted all things gay.'

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme ABAACDCCEFEGHGG
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 488
Words 93
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 15

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