Eastnor Churchyard
I BE hopin’ you remember,Now the Spring has come again,How we used to gather violetsBy the little church at Eastnor,For we were so happy then!
O my love, do you rememberKisses that you took and gave?There be violets now in plentyBy the little church at Eastnor,But they’re growing on your grave.
About this text
Eastnor Churchyard is in the public domain. This text is taken from Songs of Three Counties, and Other Poems, Project Gutenberg ebook #50591; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Radclyffe Hall, Eastnor Churchyard, in Songs of Three Counties, and Other Poems (1913), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #50591, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/hall-three-counties/eastnor-churchyard.html, id L22661.
Form and metre
Eastnor Churchyard is 10 lines in 2 stanzas of 5 lines each. The metre is trochaic tetrameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 90%).
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Rhyme words, stanza by stanza
The word that ends each line, lettered by the rhyme it makes; a dash is a line whose rhyme the dictionary could not confirm.
- 1 -A--A remember · againA · violets · eastnor · thenA
- 2 -A--A remember · gaveA · plenty · eastnor · graveA
Scansion, line by line
Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. Read against trochaic tetrameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| I BE hopin’ you remember, | 8 | ·····˘/˘ |
| Now the Spring has come again, | 7 | ·····˘/ |
| How we used to gather violets | 9 | ····/˘/˘˘ |
| By the little church at Eastnor, | 8 | ··/˘···· |
| For we were so happy then! | 7 | ····/˘· |
| O my love, do you remember | 8 | ·····˘/˘ |
| Kisses that you took and gave? | 7 | /˘····· |
| There be violets now in plenty | 9 | ··/˘˘··/˘ |
| By the little church at Eastnor, | 8 | ··/˘···· |
| But they’re growing on your grave. | 7 | ··/˘··· |
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