A Welsh Testament Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIEFJ KLEFMJN FOPEQRSOTUEEFF VEWXYSZOA2B2EC2B2D2 F| All right I was Welsh Does it matter | A |
| I spoke a tongue that was passed on | B |
| To me in the place I happened to be | C |
| A place huddled between grey walls | D |
| Of cloud for at least half the year | E |
| My word for heaven was not yours | F |
| The word for hell had a sharp edge | G |
| Put on it by the hand of the wind | H |
| Honing honing with a shrill sound | I |
| Day and night Nothing that Glyn Dwr | E |
| Knew was armour against the rain's | F |
| Missiles What was descent from him | J |
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| Even God had a Welsh name | K |
| He spoke to him in the old language | L |
| He was to have a peculiar care | E |
| For the Welsh people History showed us | F |
| He was too big to be nailed to the wall | M |
| Of a stone chapel yet still we crammed him | J |
| Between the boards of a black book | N |
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| Yet men sought us despite this | F |
| My high cheek bones my length of skull | O |
| Drew them as to a rare portrait | P |
| By a dead master I saw them stare | E |
| From their long cars as I passed knee deep | Q |
| In ewes and wethers I saw them stand | R |
| By the thorn hedges watching me string | S |
| The far flocks on a shrill whistle | O |
| And always there was their eyes strong | T |
| Pressure on me You are Welsh they said | U |
| Speak to us so keep your fields free | E |
| Of the smell of petrol the loud roar | E |
| Of hot tractors we must have peace | F |
| And quietness | F |
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| Is a museum | V |
| Peace I asked Am I the keeper | E |
| Of the heart's relics blowing the dust | W |
| In my own eyes I am a man | X |
| I never wanted the drab role | Y |
| Life assigned me an actor playing | S |
| To the past's audience upon a stage | Z |
| Of earth and stone the absurd label | O |
| Of birth of race hanging askew | A2 |
| About my shoulders I was in prison | B2 |
| Until you came your voice was a key | E |
| Turning in the enormous lock | C2 |
| Of hopelessness Did the door open | B2 |
| To let me out or yourselves in | D2 |
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| Submitted by Andrew Mayers | F |
Ronald Stuart Thomas
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