Christmas Landscape Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGHIJ KLMNO PQRST KEUEVWDXYZ A2XB2XC2N| Tonight the wind gnaws | A |
| With teeth of glass | B |
| The jackdaw shivers | C |
| In caged branches of iron | D |
| The stars have talons | E |
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| There is hunger in the mouth | F |
| Of vole and badger | G |
| Silver agonies of breath | H |
| In the nostril of the fox | I |
| Ice on the rabbit s paw | J |
| - | |
| Tonight has no moon | K |
| No food for the pilgrim | L |
| The fruit tree is bare | M |
| The rose bush a thorn | N |
| And the ground is bitter with stones | O |
| - | |
| But the mole sleeps and the hedgehog | P |
| Lies curled in a womb of leaves | Q |
| The bean and the wheat seed | R |
| Hug their germs in the earth | S |
| And the stream moves under the ice | T |
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| Tonight there is no moon | K |
| But a new star opens | E |
| Like a silver trumpet over the dead | U |
| Tonight in a nest of ruins | E |
| The blessed babe is laid | V |
| And the fir tree warms to a bloom of candles | W |
| And the child lights his lantern | D |
| Stares at his tinselled toy | X |
| And our hearts and hearths | Y |
| Smoulder with live ashes | Z |
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| In the blood of our grief | A2 |
| The cold earth is suckled | X |
| In our agony the womb | B2 |
| Convulses its seed | X |
| In the first cry of anguish | C2 |
| The child s first breath is born | N |
Laurie Lee
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