Welsh History Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST UVWXYZA2DB2C2| We were a people taut for war the hills | A |
| Were no harder the thin grass | B |
| Clothed them more warmly than the coarse | C |
| Shirts our small bones | D |
| We fought and were always in retreat | E |
| Like snow thawing upon the slopes | F |
| Of Mynydd Mawr and yet the stranger | G |
| Never found our ultimate stand | H |
| In the thick woods declaiming verse | I |
| To the sharp prompting of the harp | J |
| Our kings died or they were slain | K |
| By the old treachery at the ford | L |
| Our bards perished driven from the halls | M |
| Of nobles by the thorn and bramble | N |
| We were a people bred on legends | O |
| Warming our hands at the red past | P |
| The great were ashamed of our loose rags | Q |
| Clinging stubbornly to the proud tree | R |
| Of blood and birth our lean bellies | S |
| And mud houses were a proof | T |
| Of our ineptitude for life | U |
| We were a people wasting ourselves | V |
| In fruitless battles for our masters | W |
| In lands to which we had no claim | X |
| With men for whom we felt no hatred | Y |
| We were a people and are so yet | Z |
| When we have finished quarrelling for crumbs | A2 |
| Under the table or gnawing the bones | D |
| Of a dead culture we will arise | B2 |
| And greet each other in a new dawn | C2 |
Ronald Stuart Thomas
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