An English Wood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAABBAABCACDDCDDACA AAAAAAA| This valley wood is pledged | A |
| To the set shape of things | B |
| And reasonably hedged | A |
| Here are no harpies fledged | A |
| No rocs may clap their wings | B |
| Nor gryphons wave their stings | B |
| Here poised in quietude | A |
| Calm elementals brood | A |
| On the set shape of things | B |
| They fend away alarms | C |
| From this green wood | A |
| Here nothing is that harms | C |
| No bulls with lungs of brass | D |
| No toothed or spiny grass | D |
| No tree whose clutching arms | C |
| Drink blood when travellers pass | D |
| No mount of glass | D |
| No bardic tongues unfold | A |
| Satires or charms | C |
| Only the lawns are soft | A |
| The tree stems grave and old | A |
| Slow branches sway aloft | A |
| The evening air comes cold | A |
| The sunset scatters gold | A |
| Small grasses toss and bend | A |
| Small pathways idly tend | A |
| Towards no fearful end | A |
Robert Graves
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