Is My Team Ploughing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB CDED AFEF AGEG HIAI HJKJ HLML HNONIs my team ploughing | A |
That I was used to drive | B |
And hear the harness jingle | C |
When I was man alive | B |
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Ay the horses trample | C |
The harness jingles now | D |
No change though you lie under | E |
The land you used to plough | D |
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Is football playing | A |
Along the river shore | F |
With lads to chase the leather | E |
Now I stand up no more | F |
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Ay the ball is flying | A |
The lads play heart and soul | G |
The goal stands up the keeper | E |
Stands up to keep the goal | G |
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Is my girl happy | H |
That I thought hard to leave | I |
And has she tired of weeping | A |
As she lies down at eve | I |
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Ay she lies down lightly | H |
She lies not down to weep | J |
Your girl is well contented | K |
Be still my lad and sleep | J |
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Is my friend hearty | H |
Now I am thin and pine | L |
And has he found to sleep in | M |
A better bed than mine | L |
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Yes lad I lie easy | H |
I lie as lads would choose | N |
I cheer a dead man's sweetheart | O |
Never ask me whose | N |
A. E. Housman
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