Poetry

• In Romney Marsh 1


  “As I went down to Dymchurch wall, I heard the South sing…I saw the yellow sunlight fall on knolls where Norman churches stand”
• In Romney Marsh 2

  “A veil of purple vapour flowed And trailed its fringe along the Straits; The upper air like sapphire glowed: And roses filled Heaven’s central gates.”
• In Romney Marsh 3

  “As I came up…I saw…The crimson brands of sunset fall, Flicker and fade from out the West.”
• In Romney Marsh 4

  “Night sank: like flakes of silver fire The stars in one great shower came down;”
• In Romney Marsh 5

  “The darkly shining salt sea drops Streamed as the waves clashed on the shore; The beach, with all its organ stops Pealing again, prolonged the roar”
• London 1

  “I wander thro’ each charter’d streer, Near where the charter’d Thames does flow.”
• London 2

  “In every cry of every Man, In every Infants cry of fear"
• London 3

  The mind-forg’d manacles I hear”
• London 4

  “How the Chimney-sweepers cry Every blackning Church appals,”
• London 5

  “How the youthful Harlots curse Blasts the new-born Infants tear And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse”
• CUWB 1

  “Earth has not any thing to show more fair.”
• CUWB 2

  “This city now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning,”
• CUWB 3

  ,” “Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky;”
• CUWB 4

  “Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill;”
• CUWB 5

  “Dear God! The very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!”
• Autumn 1

  “Seasons of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless”
• Autumn 2

  ” “Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? ... may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor, Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;”
• Autumn 3

  “And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep Steady thy laden head across a brook;”
• Autumn 4

  “Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,"
• Autumn 5

  “While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue; Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn”
• Autumn 6

  “Full-grown lambs bleat” “gathering swallows twitter in the skies”
• WTPW 1

  “Where we made the fire, in the summer time,”
• WTPW 2

  ”I slowly climb Through winter mire,”
• WTPW 3

  “And scan and trace The forsaken place Quite readily.”
• WTPW 4

  “Yes, I am here Just as last year, And the sea breathes brine From it’s strange straight line”
• WTPW 5

  “But two have wandered far…Into urban roar Where no picnics are, And one- has shut her eyes For evermore.”
• IRM F


  iambic tetrameter, form is mimetic of nature and the sea
• cuwb c


  Petrarchan sonnet demonstrates love
• London f


  iambic tetrameter, also anapests e.g “And the hapless”.
• isetmd


  Ballad poem, follows the rhythm of amazing grace (Victorian religious repression contrasts with sexual awakening)
• wtpw f


  Elegy, enjambment, faster pace= happier, slower pace = sadder
• htfa

  largely trochaic but sometimes anapestic “Oh, to be in England, Now that April’s there,”, irregular rhyme scheme reflects the emotional tenor of the poem,