Welsh Landscape Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQJDL GRSTUVWXABCDEFGHIJKL MNOPQJDLGRSTUVWXYTo 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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