Mending Wall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGEHIFJKLMNOPQR STAUVWVXYBVMZVAWXFA2 B2C2VED2V| Something there is that doesn't love a wall | A |
| That sends the frozen ground swell under it | B |
| And spills the upper boulders in the sun | C |
| And makes gaps even two can pass abreast | D |
| The work of hunters is another thing | E |
| I have come after them and made repair | F |
| Where they have left not one stone on a stone | G |
| But they would have the rabbit out of hiding | E |
| To please the yelping dogs The gaps I mean | H |
| No one has seen them made or heard them made | I |
| But at spring mending time we find them there | F |
| I let my neighbour know beyond the hill | J |
| And on a day we meet to walk the line | K |
| And set the wall between us once again | L |
| We keep the wall between us as we go | M |
| To each the boulders that have fallen to each | N |
| And some are loaves and some so nearly balls | O |
| We have to use a spell to make them balance | P |
| Stay where you are until our backs are turned | Q |
| We wear our fingers rough with handling them | R |
| Oh just another kind of out door game | S |
| One on a side It comes to little more | T |
| There where it is we do not need the wall | A |
| He is all pine and I am apple orchard | U |
| My apple trees will never get across | V |
| And eat the cones under his pines I tell him | W |
| He only says Good fences make good neighbours | V |
| Spring is the mischief in me and I wonder | X |
| If I could put a notion in his head | Y |
| Why do they make good neighbours Isn't it | B |
| Where there are cows But here there are no cows | V |
| Before I built a wall I'd ask to know | M |
| What I was walling in or walling out | Z |
| And to whom I was like to give offence | V |
| Something there is that doesn't love a wall | A |
| That wants it down I could say Elves to him | W |
| But it's not elves exactly and I'd rather | X |
| He said it for himself I see him there | F |
| Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top | A2 |
| In each hand like an old stone savage armed | B2 |
| He moves in darkness as it seems to me | C2 |
| Not of woods only and the shade of trees | V |
| He will not go behind his father's saying | E |
| And he likes having thought of it so well | D2 |
| He says again Good fences make good neighbours | V |
Robert Frost
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John Leith: "Mending Wall" should get a prize for Frost's all-time best poem. It has a shadow of our deeper existence than merely being around, about why we are here, why we have neighbors and community and a world filled with so much to see and consider, whether or not we see or consider. After a lifetime of poetry as friend, Robert Frost and Carl Sandberg remain with me and bid me consider the thoughts framed in them. I hope to do that more often, as death approaches me "on silent cat feet." (May, 2023)
John Leith: "Mending Wall" should get a prize for Frost's all-time best poem. It has a shadow of our deeper existence than merely being around, about why we are here, why we have neighbors and community and a world filled with so much to see and consider, whether or not we see or consider. After a lifetime of poetry as friend, Robert Frost and Carl Sandberg remain with me and bid me consider the thoughts framed in them. I hope to do that more often, as death approaches me "on silent cat feet." (May, 2023)
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