In The Grass. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABBBCCCDEEFFGCCHII IAAA| 'Tis as if I saw it all sat now in the grass and heard | A |
| The soft warm wind in my ears like the lilt of a lonely bird | A |
| Sat now in the grasses so saw but said never a word | A |
| The two of them in the wood below me there by the rill | B |
| He with the light on his brow she in the shadow still | B |
| And a cloud so white goes over the blue on the gleaming hill | B |
| My nest in the grass was good they deemed that none might see | C |
| Ah God in heaven my eyes looked out of the hell in me | C |
| As his arm went round her waist and his lips where mine might be | C |
| Touched hers as her face drew up like a flower in the light to his | D |
| Touched hers as I felt her soul shine out in a dream of bliss | E |
| While mine with the pangs of hell was alive in a world like this | E |
| I dared not move nor could I shut my eyes to it all | F |
| And still they clung and kissed I heard the waterfall | F |
| I heard the warm wind sing till the day began to pall | G |
| And then they rose the twain who had taken my life from me | C |
| I did not rise but lay where none might hear or see | C |
| In the grass in the dark and sobbed 'Would God that the end might be ' | H |
| The years have come since then and the years have gone but I | I |
| Though the fever of death was strong upon me did not die | I |
| And though I am old and weak as upon my couch I lie | I |
| 'Tis as if I saw it all sat still in the grass and heard | A |
| The soft warm wind in my ears like the lilt of a lonely bird | A |
| Sat still in the grasses so saw but said never a word | A |
Robert Crawford
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