North Country Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC BDDB EDDF GHII JKKL BBBB IBBI| North Country filled with gesturing wood | A |
| With trees that fence like archers' volleys | B |
| The flanks of hidden valleys | B |
| Where nothing's left to hide | C |
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| But verticals and perpendiculars | B |
| Like rain gone wooden fixed in falling | D |
| Or fingers blindly feeling | D |
| For what nobody cares | B |
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| Or trunks of pewter bangled by greedy death | E |
| Stuck with black staghorns quietly sucking | D |
| And trees whose boughs go seeking | D |
| And tress like broken teeth | F |
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| With smoky antlers broken in the sky | G |
| Or trunks that lie grotesquely rigid | H |
| Like bodies blank and wretched | I |
| After a fool's battue | I |
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| As if they've secret ways of dying here | J |
| And secret places for their anguish | K |
| When boughs at last relinquish | K |
| Their clench of blowing air | L |
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| But this gaunt country filled with mills and saws | B |
| With butter works and railway stations | B |
| And public institutions | B |
| And scornful rumps of cows | B |
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| North Country filled with gesturing wood | I |
| Timber's the end it gives to branches | B |
| Cut off in cubic inches | B |
| Dripping red with blood | I |
Kenneth Slessor
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