A Lonely Place Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIHI HJHJ KLML| The leafless trees the untidy stack | A |
| Last rainy summer raised in haste | B |
| Watch the sky turn from fair to black | A |
| And watch the river fill and waste | B |
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| But never a footstep comes to trouble | C |
| The sea gulls in the new sown corn | D |
| Or pigeons rising from late stubble | C |
| And flashing lighter as they turn | E |
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| Or if a footstep comes 'tis mine | F |
| Sharp on the road or soft on grass | G |
| Silence divides along my line | F |
| And shuts behind me as I pass | G |
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| No other comes no labourer | H |
| To cut his shaggy truss of hay | I |
| Along the road no traveller | H |
| Day after day day after day | I |
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| And even I when I come here | H |
| Move softly on subdued and still | J |
| Lonely as death though I can hear | H |
| Men shouting on the other hill | J |
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| Day after day though no one sees | K |
| The lonely place no different seems | L |
| The trees the stack still images | M |
| Constant in who can say whose dreams | L |
Edward Shanks
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