The Wilderness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC CDE FAC GAH CIC| I came too late to the hills they were swept bare | A |
| Winters before I was born of song and story | B |
| Of spell or speech with power of oracle or invocation | C |
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| The great ash long dead by a roofless house its branches rotten | C |
| The voice of the crows an inarticulate cry | D |
| And from the wells and springs the holy water ebbed away | E |
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| A child I ran in the wind on a withered moor | F |
| Crying out after those great presences who were not there | A |
| Long lost in the forgetfulness of the forgotten | C |
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| Only the archaic forms themselves could tell | G |
| In sacred speech of hoodie on gray stone or hawk in air | A |
| Of Eden where the lonely rowan bends over the dark pool | H |
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| Yet I have glimpsed the bright mountain behind the mountain | C |
| Knowledge under the leaves tasted the bitter berries red | I |
| Drunk water cold and clear from an inexhaustible hidden fountain | C |
Kathleen Jessie Raine
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