Rocky Acres Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCC DCDCCEE FGFGGHH IJIJKHH| This is a wild land country of my choice | A |
| With harsh craggy mountain moor ample and bare | B |
| Seldom in these acres is heard any voice | A |
| But voice of cold water that runs here and there | B |
| Through rocks and lank heather growing without care | B |
| No mice in the heath run nor no birds cry | C |
| For fear of the dark speck that floats in the sky | C |
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| He soars and he hovers rocking on his wings | D |
| He scans his wide parish with a sharp eye | C |
| He catches the trembling of small hidden things | D |
| He tears them in pieces dropping from the sky | C |
| Tenderness and pity the land will deny | C |
| Where life is but nourished from water and rock | E |
| A hardy adventure full of fear and shock | E |
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| Time has never journeyed to this lost land | F |
| Crakeberries and heather bloom out of date | G |
| The rocks jut the streams flow singing on either hand | F |
| Careless if the season be early or late | G |
| The skies wander overhead now blue now slate | G |
| Winter would be known by his cold cutting snow | H |
| If June did not borrow his armour also | H |
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| Yet this is my country be loved by me best | I |
| The first land that rose from Chaos and the Flood | J |
| Nursing no fat valleys for comfort and rest | I |
| Trampled by no hard hooves stained with no blood | J |
| Bold immortal country whose hill tops have stood | K |
| Strongholds for the proud gods when on earth they go | H |
| Terror for fat burghers in far plains below | H |
Robert Graves
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