Thèlus Wood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBEFFCCGHIHA JKJLMLBNONMPQCRSA TTUTUV W X HYYHVZVB WVWVVA2VB2C2B2C2TVTV D2D2VA2 E2VF2VI came by night to Th lus wood | A |
And though in dark and desperate places | B |
Stubborned with wire and brown with blood | C |
Undaunted April crept and sewed | D |
Her violets in dead men's faces | B |
And in a soft and snowy shroud | E |
Drew the scarred fields with gentle stitch | F |
Though in the valley where the ditch | F |
Was hoarse with nettles blind with mud | C |
She stroked the golden headed bud | C |
And loosed the fern she dared not here | G |
To touch nor tend this murdered thing | H |
The wind went wide of it the year | I |
Upon this breast stopped short of Spring | H |
Beauty turned back from Th lus Wood | A |
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From broken brows the dim eyes stared | J |
Blistered and maimed the wide stumps grinned | K |
From the black mouth of Th lus bared | J |
In laughter at some monstrous jest | L |
No creature moved there weed nor wind | M |
Huge arms half torn from savage breast | L |
Hung wide and tangled limbs and faces | B |
Lay as if giants blind and stark | N |
With violent with perverse embraces | O |
Groped for each other in the dark | N |
A moaning rose not of the wind | M |
There was no wind but hollowly | P |
From its dim bed of mud each tree | Q |
Gave forth a sound till trees and mud | C |
Seemed but a single sighing mouth | R |
A wound that spoke with lips uncouth | S |
And cried to me from Th lus Wood | A |
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I heard one tree say 'This was I | T |
Who drew great clouds across the sky | T |
To weep against me ' This one said | U |
'I made a gloom where love might lie | T |
All day and dream it night a bed | U |
Secret and soft the birds' song had | V |
A twilight sound the whole day there ' | - |
One said 'Last night I shook my hair | W |
Before the mirror of the moon ' | - |
'I saw a corpse to day ' said one | X |
'That was but buried yester year ' | - |
And one the smallest sweetest thing | H |
A fair child tree made never stir | Y |
Dead before God had tended her | Y |
In the green nurseries of Spring | H |
She lay the loveliest loneliest | V |
Among the old and ruined trees | Z |
And at each small and broken wrist | V |
The white flowers grew like bandages | B |
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Then from the ruined churchyard where | W |
Old vaults and graves lay turned and tossed | V |
And earth from earth was shaken bare | W |
Came murmurings of a tongueless host | V |
That to each ghastly brother said | V |
'Who raised us from our sleep Is this | A2 |
The resurrection of the dead | V |
Upon our bodies no flesh grows | B2 |
No bright blood through our temples springs | C2 |
No glory spreads no trumpet blows | B2 |
The air is not white and blind with wings | C2 |
And yet dragged up before us lie | T |
The woods of Th lus at our feet | V |
And strange hills sentinel the sky | T |
And where the road went yawns a pit | V |
The world is finished let us sleep | D2 |
God has forgotten we shall keep | D2 |
Here a sweet safe Eternity | V |
There is no other end than this | A2 |
And this is death and that is peace ' | - |
But even as they ceased the stones | E2 |
Were loosed the earth shook where I stood | V |
And from far off the crouching guns | F2 |
Swung slowly round on Th lus Wood | V |
Muriel Stuart
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