By The Road To The Air Base Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHG| The calloused grass lies hard | A |
| Against the cracking plain | B |
| Life is a grayish stain | B |
| The salt marsh hems my yard | A |
| - | |
| Dry dikes rise hill on hill | C |
| In sloughs of tidal slime | D |
| Shellfish deposit lime | D |
| Wild seafowl creep at will | C |
| - | |
| The highway like a beach | E |
| Turns whiter shadowy dry | F |
| Loud pale against the sky | F |
| The bombing planes hold speech | E |
| - | |
| Yet fruit grows on the trees | G |
| Here scholars pause to speak | H |
| Through gardens bare and Greek | H |
| I hear my neighbor's bees | G |
Yvor Winters
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about By The Road To The Air Base poem by Yvor Winters
Best Poems of Yvor Winters