The Three Hills Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD ECEC FGFG HIHI JKJL| There were three hills that stood alone | A |
| With woods about their feet | B |
| They dreamed quiet when the sun shone | A |
| And whispered when the rain beat | B |
| - | |
| They wore all three their coronals | C |
| Till men with houses came | D |
| And scored their heads with pits and walls | C |
| And thought the hills were tame | D |
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| Red and white when day shines bright | E |
| They hide the green for miles | C |
| Where are the old hills gone At night | E |
| The moon looks down and smiles | C |
| - | |
| She sees the captors small and weak | F |
| She knows the prisoners strong | G |
| She hears the patient hills that speak | F |
| Brothers it is not long | G |
| - | |
| Brothers we stood when they were not | H |
| Ten thousand summers past | I |
| Brothers when they are clean forgot | H |
| We shall outlive the last | I |
| - | |
| One shall die and one shall flee | J |
| With terror in his train | K |
| And earth shall eat the stones and we | J |
| Shall be alone again | L |
John Collings Squire, Sir
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