England Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEFGHGH| Shoulders of upland brown laid dark to the sunset's bosom | A |
| Living amber of wheat and copper of new ploughed loam | B |
| Downs where the white sheep wander little gardens in blossom | A |
| Roads that wind through the twilight up to the lights of home | B |
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| Lanes that are white with hawthorn dykes where the sedges shiver | C |
| Hollows where caged winds slumber moorlands where winds wake free | D |
| Sowing and reaping and gleaning spring and torrent and river | C |
| Are they not more by worlds than the whole of the world can be | D |
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| Is there a corner of land a furze fringed rag of a by way | E |
| Coign of your foam white cliffs or swirl of your grass green waves | F |
| Leaf of your peaceful copse or dust of your strenuous highway | E |
| But in our hearts is sacred dear as our cradles our graves | F |
| Is not each bough in your orchards each cloud in the skies above you | G |
| Is not each byre or homestead furrow or farm or fold | H |
| Dear as the last dear drops of the blood in the hearts that love you | G |
| Filling those hearts till the love is more than the heart can hold | H |
Edith Nesbit
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