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Welsh History Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST UVWXYZA2DB2C2

We were a people taut for war the hillsA
Were no harder the thin grassB
Clothed them more warmly than the coarseC
Shirts our small bonesD
We fought and were always in retreatE
Like snow thawing upon the slopesF
Of Mynydd Mawr and yet the strangerG
Never found our ultimate standH
In the thick woods declaiming verseI
To the sharp prompting of the harpJ
Our kings died or they were slainK
By the old treachery at the fordL
Our bards perished driven from the hallsM
Of nobles by the thorn and brambleN
We were a people bred on legendsO
Warming our hands at the red pastP
The great were ashamed of our loose ragsQ
Clinging stubbornly to the proud treeR
Of blood and birth our lean belliesS
And mud houses were a proofT
Of our ineptitude for lifeU
We were a people wasting ourselvesV
In fruitless battles for our mastersW
In lands to which we had no claimX
With men for whom we felt no hatredY
We were a people and are so yetZ
When we have finished quarrelling for crumbsA2
Under the table or gnawing the bonesD
Of a dead culture we will ariseB2
And greet each other in a new dawnC2

Ronald Stuart Thomas



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