Welsh Landscape Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQJDL GRSTUVWXABCDEFGHIJKL MNOPQJDLGRSTUVWXY| To live in Wales is to be conscious | A |
| At dusk of the spilled blood | B |
| That went into the making of the wild sky | C |
| Dyeing the immaculate rivers | D |
| In all their courses | E |
| It is to be aware | F |
| Above the noisy tractor | G |
| And hum of the machine | H |
| Of strife in the strung woods | I |
| Vibrant with sped arrows | J |
| You cannot live in the present | K |
| At least not in Wales | L |
| There is the language for instance | M |
| The soft consonants | N |
| Strange to the ear | O |
| There are cries in the dark at night | P |
| As owls answer the moon | Q |
| And thick ambush of shadows | J |
| Hushed at the fields' corners | D |
| There is no present in Wales | L |
| And no future | G |
| There is only the past | R |
| Brittle with relics | S |
| Wind bitten towers and castles | T |
| With sham ghosts | U |
| Mouldering quarries and mines | V |
| And an impotent people | W |
| Sick with inbreeding | X |
| Worrying the carcase of an old song To live in Wales is to be conscious | A |
| At dusk of the spilled blood | B |
| That went into the making of the wild sky | C |
| Dyeing the immaculate rivers | D |
| In all their courses | E |
| It is to be aware | F |
| Above the noisy tractor | G |
| And hum of the machine | H |
| Of strife in the strung woods | I |
| Vibrant with sped arrows | J |
| You cannot live in the present | K |
| At least not in Wales | L |
| There is the language for instance | M |
| The soft consonants | N |
| Strange to the ear | O |
| There are cries in the dark at night | P |
| As owls answer the moon | Q |
| And thick ambush of shadows | J |
| Hushed at the fields' corners | D |
| There is no present in Wales | L |
| And no future | G |
| There is only the past | R |
| Brittle with relics | S |
| Wind bitten towers and castles | T |
| With sham ghosts | U |
| Mouldering quarries and mines | V |
| And an impotent people | W |
| Sick with inbreeding | X |
| Worrying the carcase of an old song | Y |
Ronald Stuart Thomas
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