The Lofty Sky Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEFGDDAADDHHIIDD JJJJDDDDDDAAKK| To day I want the sky | A |
| The tops of the high hills | B |
| Above the last man's house | C |
| His hedges and his cows | D |
| Where if I will I look | E |
| Down even on sheep and rook | E |
| And of all things that move | F |
| See buzzards only above | G |
| Past all trees past furze | D |
| And thorn where nought deters | D |
| The desire of the eye | A |
| For sky nothing but sky | A |
| I sicken of the woods | D |
| And all the multitudes | D |
| Of hedge trees They are no more | H |
| Than weeds upon this floor | H |
| Of the river of air | I |
| Leagues deep leagues wide where | I |
| I am like a fish that lives | D |
| In weeds and mud and gives | D |
| What's above him no thought | J |
| I might be a tench for aught | J |
| That I can do to day | J |
| Down on the wealden clay | J |
| Even the tench has days | D |
| When he floats up and plays | D |
| Among the lily leaves | D |
| And sees the sky or grieves | D |
| Not if he nothing sees | D |
| While I I know that trees | D |
| Under that lofty sky | A |
| Are weeds fields mud and I | A |
| Would arise and go far | K |
| To where the lilies are | K |
Edward Thomas
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