Past And Present
Daisies are over Nyren, and Hambledon
Hardly remembers any summer gone:
And never again the Kentish elms shall see
Mynn, or Fuller Pilch, or Colin Blythe.
Nor shall I see them, unless perhaps a ghost
Watching the elder ghosts beyond the moon.
But here in common sunshine I have seen
George Hirst, not yet a ghost, substantial,
His off-drives mellow as brown ale, and crisp
Merry late cuts, and brave Chaucerian pulls;
Waddington's fury and the patience of Dipper;
And twenty easy artful overs of Rhodes,
So many stanzas of the Faerie Queen.
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AABCDAAEFGHIA |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 530 |
Words | 93 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
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