The Ash Grove Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABA CBDB DDED EEEE| Half of the grove stood dead and those that yet lived made | A |
| Little more than the dead ones made of shade | A |
| If they led to a house long before they had seen its fall | B |
| But they welcomed me I was glad without cause and delayed | A |
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| Scarce a hundred paces under the trees was the interval | C |
| Paces each sweeter than the sweetest miles but nothing at all | B |
| Not even the spirits of memory and fear with restless wing | D |
| Could climb down in to molest me over the wall | B |
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| That I passed through at either end without noticing | D |
| And now an ash grove far from those hills can bring | D |
| The same tranquillity in which I wander a ghost | E |
| With a ghostly gladness as if I heard a girl sing | D |
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| The song of the Ash Grove soft as love uncrossed | E |
| And then in a crowd or in distance it were lost | E |
| But the moment unveiled something unwilling to die | E |
| And I had what I most desired without search or desert or cost | E |
Edward Thomas
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