Country At War Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEECCFFGGHHII JJKKLLMMNNOOPPQQRS| And what of home how goes it boys | A |
| While we die here in stench and noise | A |
| The hill stands up and hedges wind | B |
| Over the crest and drop behind | B |
| Here swallows dip and wild things go | C |
| On peaceful errands to and fro | C |
| Across the sloping meadow floor | D |
| And make no guess at blasting war | D |
| In woods that fledge the round hill shoulder | E |
| Leaves shoot and open fall and moulder | E |
| And shoot again Meadows yet show | C |
| Alternate white of drifted snow | C |
| And daisies Children play at shop | F |
| Warm days on the flat boulder top | F |
| With wildflower coinage and the wares | G |
| Are bits of glass and unripe pears | G |
| Crows perch upon the backs of sheep | H |
| The wheat goes yellow women reap | H |
| Autumn winds ruffle brook and pond | I |
| Flutter the hedge and fly beyond | I |
| So the first things of nature run | J |
| And stand not still for any one | J |
| Contemptuous of the distant cry | K |
| Wherewith you harrow earth and sky | K |
| And high French clouds praying to be | L |
| Back back in peace beyond the sea | L |
| Where nature with accustomed round | M |
| Sweeps and garnishes the ground | M |
| With kindly beauty warm or cold | N |
| Alternate seasons never old | N |
| Heathen how furiously you rage | O |
| Cursing this blood and brimstone age | O |
| How furiously against your will | P |
| You kill and kill again and kill | P |
| All thought of peace behind you cast | Q |
| Till like small boys with fear aghast | Q |
| Each cries for God to understand | R |
| 'I could not help it it was my hand ' | S |
Robert Graves
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