The Word Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEBBBBFFGHBBII BB| There are so many things I have forgot | A |
| That once were much to me or that were not | A |
| All lost as is a childless woman's child | B |
| And its child's children in the undefiled | B |
| Abyss of what can never be again | C |
| I have forgot too names of the mighty men | C |
| That fought and lost or won in the old wars | D |
| Of kings and fiends and gods and most of the stars | E |
| Some things I have forgot that I forget | B |
| But lesser things there are remembered yet | B |
| Than all the others One name that I have not | B |
| Though 'tis an empty thingless name forgot | B |
| Never can die because Spring after Spring | F |
| Some thrushes learn to say it as they sing | F |
| There is always one at midday saying it clear | G |
| And tart the name only the name I hear | H |
| While perhaps I am thinking of the elder scent | B |
| That is like food or while I am content | B |
| With the wild rose scent that is like memory | I |
| This name suddenly is cried out to me | I |
| From somewhere in the bushes by a bird | B |
| Over and over again a pure thrush word | B |
Edward Thomas
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