The Wood By The Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL ABAB| I DWELL in the wood that is dark and kind | A |
| But afar off tolls the main | B |
| Afar far off I hear the wind | A |
| And the roving of the rain | B |
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| The shade is dark as a palmer's hood | C |
| The air with balm is bland | D |
| But I wish the trees that breathe in the wood | C |
| Were ashes in God's hand | D |
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| The pines are weary of holding nests | E |
| Are aweary of casting shade | F |
| Wearily smoulder the resin crests | E |
| In the pungent gloom of the glade | F |
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| Weary are all the birds of sleep | G |
| The nests are weary of wings | H |
| The whole wood yearns to the swaying deep | G |
| The mother of restful things | H |
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| The wood is very old and still | I |
| So still when the dead cones fall | J |
| Near in the vale or away on the hill | I |
| You can hear them one and all | J |
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| And their falling wearies me | K |
| If mine were the will of God oh then | L |
| The wood should tramp to the sounding sea | K |
| Like a marching army of men | L |
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| But I dwell in the wood that is dark and kind | A |
| Afar off tolls the main | B |
| Afar far off I hear the wind | A |
| And the roving of the rain | B |
Duncan Campbell Scott
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