I Never Saw That Land Before Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACA DEDEF GHGEI JKJKJ LMLML| I never saw that land before | A |
| And now can never see it again | B |
| Yet as if by acquaintance hoar | A |
| Endeared by gladness and by pain | C |
| Great was the affection that I bore | A |
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| To the valley and the river small | D |
| The cattle the grass the bare ash trees | E |
| The chickens from the farmsteads all | D |
| Elm hidden and the tributaries | E |
| Descending at equal interval | F |
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| The blackthorns down along the brook | G |
| With wounds yellow as crocuses | H |
| Where yesterday the labourer's hook | G |
| Had sliced them cleanly and the breeze | E |
| That hinted all and nothing spoke | I |
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| I neither expected anything | J |
| Nor yet remembered but some goal | K |
| I touched then and if I could sing | J |
| What would not even whisper my soul | K |
| As I went on my journeying | J |
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| I should use as the trees and birds did | L |
| A language not to be betrayed | M |
| And what was hid should still be hid | L |
| Excepting from those like me made | M |
| Who answer when such whispers bid | L |
Edward Thomas
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