After Rain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFEEGGHHIIJJ EEKKLM| The rain of a night and a day and a night | A |
| Stops at the light | A |
| Of this pale choked day The peering sun | B |
| Sees what has been done | B |
| The road under the trees has a border new | C |
| of purple hue | C |
| Inside the border of bright thin grass | D |
| For all that has | E |
| Been left by November of leaves is torn | F |
| From hazel and thorn | F |
| And the greater trees Throughout the copse | E |
| No dead leaf drops | E |
| On grey grass green moss burnt orange fern | G |
| At the wind's return | G |
| The leaflets out of the ash tree shed | H |
| Are thinly spread | H |
| In the road like little black fish inlaid | I |
| As if they played | I |
| What hangs from the myriad branches down there | J |
| So hard and bare | J |
| Is twelve yellow apples lovely to see | E |
| On one crab tree | E |
| And on each twig of every tree in the dell | K |
| Uncountable | K |
| Crystals both dark and bright of the the rain | L |
| That begins again | M |
Edward Thomas
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ashley: why is it sooooo metaphorical??
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