The Barn And The Down Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFG HIJI CKLK AMKM CNBO| t stood in the sunset sky | A |
| Like the straight backed down | B |
| Many a time the barn | C |
| At the edge of town | B |
| - | |
| So huge and dark that it seemed | D |
| It was the hill | E |
| Till the gable's precipice proved | F |
| It impossible | G |
| - | |
| Then the great down in the west | H |
| Grew into sight | I |
| A barn stored full to the ridge | J |
| With black of night | I |
| - | |
| And the barn fell to a barn | C |
| Or even less | K |
| Before critical eyes and its own | L |
| Late mightiness | K |
| - | |
| But far down and near barn and I | A |
| Since then have smiled | M |
| Having seen my new cautiousness | K |
| By itself beguiled | M |
| - | |
| To disdain what seemed the barn | C |
| Till a few steps changed | N |
| It past all doubt to the down | B |
| So the barn was avenged | O |
Edward Thomas
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