Man And Dog Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFGGHHIJJBBFFKA LLMNNOEHPHQBRBSSQATU UVV| ''Twill take some getting ' 'Sir I think 'twill so ' | A |
| The old man stared up at the mistletoe | B |
| That hung too high in the poplar's crest for plunder | C |
| Of any climber though not for kissing under | C |
| Then he went on against the north east wind Straight but lame leaning on a staff new skinned Carrying a brolly flag basket and old coat | D |
| Towards Alto ten miles off And he had not | E |
| Done less from Chilgrove where he pulled up docks 'Twere best if he had had 'a money box' | F |
| To have waited there till the sheep cleared a field | G |
| For what a half week's flint picking would yield | G |
| His mind was running on the work he had done | H |
| Since he left Christchurch in the New Forest one | H |
| Spring in the 'seventies navvying on dock and line From Southampton to Newcastle on Tyne | I |
| In 'seventy four a year of soldiering | J |
| With the Berkshires hoeing and harvesting | J |
| In half the shires where corn and couch will grow | B |
| His sons three sons were fighting but the hoe | B |
| And reap hook he liked or anything to do with trees | F |
| He fell once from a poplar tall as these | F |
| The Flying Man they called him in hospital | K |
| 'If I flew now to another world I'd fall ' | A |
| He laughed and whistled to the small brown bitch | L |
| With spots of blue that hunted in the ditch | L |
| Her foxy Welsh grandfather must have paired | M |
| Beneath him He kept sheep in Wales and scared Strangers I will warrant with his pearl eye | N |
| And trick of shrinking off as he were shy | N |
| Then following close in silence for for what | O |
| 'No rabbit never fear she ever got | E |
| Yet always hunts To day she nearly had one | H |
| She would and she wouldn't 'Twas like that | P |
| The bad one | H |
| She's not much use but still she's company | Q |
| Though I'm not She goes everywhere with me So | B |
| Alton I must reach to night somehow | R |
| I'll get no shakedown with that bedfellow | B |
| From farmers Many a man sleeps worse to night | S |
| Than I shall ' 'In the trenches ' 'Yes that's right | S |
| But they'll be out of that I hope they be | Q |
| This weather marching after the enemy ' | A |
| 'And so I hope Good luck ' And there I nodded | T |
| 'Good night You keep straight on ' Stiffly he plodded And at his heels the crisp leaves scurried fast | U |
| And the leaf coloured robin watched They passed | U |
| The robin till next day the man for good | V |
| Together in the twilight of the wood | V |
Edward Thomas
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