In A Wood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDDDC ECECFGFC HIHIJJJI KLKLMMML CGCGCCCG| In a Wood | A |
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| Pale beech and pine tree blue | B |
| Set in one clay | C |
| Bough to bough cannot you | B |
| Bide out your day | C |
| When the rains skim and skip | D |
| Why mar sweet comradeship | D |
| Blighting with poison drip | D |
| Neighborly spray | C |
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| Heart halt and spirit lame | E |
| City opprest | C |
| Unto this wood I came | E |
| As to a nest | C |
| Dreaming that sylvan peace | F |
| Offered the harrowed ease | G |
| Nature a soft release | F |
| From men s unrest | C |
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| But having entered in | H |
| Great growths and small | I |
| Show them to men akin | H |
| Combatants all | I |
| Sycamore shoulders oak | J |
| Bines the slim sapling yoke | J |
| Ivy spun halters choke | J |
| Elms stout and tall | I |
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| Touches from ash O wych | K |
| Sting you like scorn | L |
| You too brave hollies twitch | K |
| Sidelong from thorn | L |
| Even the rank poplars bear | M |
| Illy a rival s air | M |
| Cankering in black despair | M |
| If overborne | L |
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| Since then no grace I find | C |
| Taught me of trees | G |
| Turn I back to my kind | C |
| Worthy as these | G |
| There at least smiles abound | C |
| There discourse trills around | C |
| There now and then are found | C |
| Life loyalties | G |
Thomas Hardy
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