Haymaking Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AAAABACCAAAADDEEDDCC FFAAGGAAAACCAAHHEEIJ KK

After night's thunder far away had rolledA
The fiery day had a kernel sweet of coldA
And in the perfect blue the clouds uncurledA
Like the first gods before they made the worldA
And misery swimming the stormless seaB
In beauty and in divine gaietyA
The smooth white empty road was lightly strewnC
With leaves the holly's Autumn falls in JuneC
And fir cones standing up stiff in the heatA
The mill foot water tumbled white and litA
With tossing crystals happier than any crowdA
Of children pouring out of school aloudA
And in the little thickets where a sleeperD
For ever might lie lost the nettle creeperD
And garden warbler sang unceasinglyE
While over them shrill shrieked in his fierce gleeE
The swift with wings and tail as sharp and narrowD
As if the bow had flown off with the arrowD
Only the scent of woodbine and hay new mownC
Travelled the road In the field sloping downC
Park like to where its willows showed the brookF
Haymakers rested The tosser lay forsookF
Out in the sun and the long waggon stoodA
Without its team it seemed it never wouldA
Move from the shadow of that single yewG
The team as still until their task was dueG
Beside the labourers enjoyed the shadeA
That three squat oaks mid feld together madeA
Upon a circle of grass and weed uncutA
And on the hollow once a chalk pit butA
Now brimmed with nut and elder flower so cleanC
The men leaned on their rakes about to beginC
But still And all were silent All was oldA
This morning time with a great age untoldA
Older than Clare and Cobbett Morland and CromeH
Than at the field's far edge the farmer's homeH
A white house crouched at the foot of a great treeE
Under the heavens that know not what years beE
The men the beasts the trees the implementsI
Uttered even what they will in times far henceJ
All of us gone out of the reach of changeK
Immortal in a picture of an old grangeK

Edward Thomas



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