A Peasant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCDEDFGHIJKJFLLFL FF F| Iago Prytherch his name though be it allowed | A |
| Just an ordinary man of the bald Welsh hills | B |
| Who pens a few sheep in a gap of cloud | A |
| Docking mangels chipping the green skin | C |
| From the yellow bones with a half witted grin | C |
| Of satisfaction or churning the crude earth | D |
| To a stiff sea of clods that glint in the wind mdash | E |
| So are his days spent his spittled mirth | D |
| Rarer than the sun that cracks the cheeks | F |
| Of the gaunt sky perhaps once in a week | G |
| And then at night see him fixed in his chair | H |
| Motionless except when he leans to gob in the fire | I |
| There is something frightening in the vacancy of his mind | J |
| His clothes sour with years of sweat | K |
| And animal contact shock the refined | J |
| But affected sense with their stark naturalness | F |
| Yet this is your prototype who season by season | L |
| Against siege of rain and the wind's attrition | L |
| Preserves his stock an impregnable fortress | F |
| Not to be stormed even in death's confusion | L |
| Remember him then for he too is a winner of wars | F |
| Enduring like a tree under the curious stars | F |
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| Submitted by Andrew Mayers | F |
Ronald Stuart Thomas
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