Letter To S.s. From Mametz Wood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDDEFGGAAHHIIJJKKLL LLMMNNAAOOPPNNQQKKLL KKKKLLNNMMLL RRNNSSMM NNNNKKTT NNNNKKKKNNKKNNKK| I never dreamed we'd meet that day | A |
| In our old haunts down Fricourt way | A |
| Plotting such marvellous journeys there | B |
| For jolly old Apr egrave s la guerre | B |
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| Well when it's over first we'll meet | C |
| At Gweithdy Bach my country seat | C |
| In Wales a curious little shop | D |
| With two rooms and a roof on top | D |
| A sort of Morlancourt ish billet | E |
| That never needs a crowd to fill it | F |
| But oh the country round about | G |
| The sort of view that makes you shout | G |
| For want of any better way | A |
| Of praising God there's a blue bay | A |
| Shining in front and on the right | H |
| Snowden and Hebog capped with white | H |
| And lots of other jolly peaks | I |
| That you could wonder at for weeks | I |
| With jag and spur and hump and cleft | J |
| There's a grey castle on the left | J |
| And back in the high Hinterland | K |
| You'll see the grave of Shawn Knarlbrand | K |
| Who slew the savage Buffaloon | L |
| By the Nant col one night in June | L |
| And won his surname from the horn | L |
| Of this prodigious unicorn | L |
| Beyond where the two Rhinogs tower | M |
| Rhinog Fach and Rhinog Fawr | M |
| Close there after a four years' chase | N |
| From Thessaly and the woods of Thrace | N |
| The beaten Dog cat stood at bay | A |
| And growled and fought and passed away | A |
| You'll see where mountain conies grapple | O |
| With prayer and creed in their rock chapel | O |
| Which Ben and Claire once built for them | P |
| They call it S ouml ar Bethlehem | P |
| You'll see where in old Roman days | N |
| Before Revivals changed our ways | N |
| The Virgin 'scaped the Devil's grab | Q |
| Printing her foot on a stone slab | Q |
| With five clear toe marks and you'll find | K |
| The fiendish thumbprint close behind | K |
| You'll see where Math Mathonwy's son | L |
| Spoke with the wizard Gwydion | L |
| And bad him from South Wales set out | K |
| To steal that creature with the snout | K |
| That new discovered grunting beast | K |
| Divinely flavoured for the feast | K |
| No traveller yet has hit upon | L |
| A wilder land than Meirion | L |
| For desolate hills and tumbling stones | N |
| Bogland and melody and old bones | N |
| Fairies and ghosts are here galore | M |
| And poetry most splendid more | M |
| Than can be written with the pen | L |
| Or understood by common men | L |
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| In Gweithdy Bach we'll rest awhile | R |
| We'll dress our wounds and learn to smile | R |
| With easier lips we'll stretch our legs | N |
| And live on bilberry tart and eggs | N |
| And store up solar energy | S |
| Basking in sunshine by the sea | S |
| Until we feel a match once more | M |
| For anything but another war | M |
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| So then we'll kiss our families | N |
| And sail across the seas | N |
| The God of Song protecting us | N |
| To the great hills of Caucasus | N |
| Robert will learn the local bat | K |
| For billeting and things like that | K |
| If Siegfried learns the piccolo | T |
| To charm the people as we go | T |
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| The jolly peasants clad in furs | N |
| Will greet the Welch ski officers | N |
| With open arms and ere we pass | N |
| Will make us vocal with Kavasse | N |
| In old Bagdad we'll call a halt | K |
| At the S acirc shuns' ancestral vault | K |
| We'll catch the Persian rose flowers' scent | K |
| And understand what Omar meant | K |
| Bitlis and Mush will know our faces | N |
| Tiflis and Tomsk and all such places | N |
| Perhaps eventually we'll get | K |
| Among the Tartars of Thibet | K |
| Hobnobbing with the Chungs and Mings | N |
| And doing wild tremendous things | N |
| In free adventure quest and fight | K |
| And God what poetry we'll write | K |
Robert Graves
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