Rough Country Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAAADEFGAAHIJKAALM| Give me a landscape made of obstacles | A |
| of steep hills and jutting glacial rock | B |
| where the low running streams are quick to flood | C |
| the grassy fields and bottomlands | A |
| A place | A |
| no engineers can master where the roads | A |
| must twist like tendrils up the mountainside | D |
| on narrow cliffs where boulders block the way | E |
| Where tall black trunks of lightning scalded pine | F |
| push through the tangled woods to make a roost | G |
| for hawks and swarming crows | A |
| And sharp inclines | A |
| where twisting through the thorn thick underbrush | H |
| scratched and exhausted one turns suddenly | I |
| to find an unexpected waterfall | J |
| not half a mile from the nearest road | K |
| a spot so hard to reach that no one comes | A |
| a hiding place a shrine for dragonflies | A |
| and nesting jays a sign that there is still | L |
| one piece of property that won't be owned | M |
Dana Gioia
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