On Your Midnight Pallet Lying Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCB DEDEFFE| On your midnight pallet lying | A |
| Listen and undo the door | B |
| Lads that waste the light in sighing | A |
| In the dark should sigh no more | B |
| Night should ease a lover's sorrow | C |
| Therefore since I go to morrow | C |
| Pity me before | B |
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| In the land to which I travel | D |
| The far dwelling let me say | E |
| Once if here the couch is gravel | D |
| In a kinder bed I lay | E |
| And the breast the darnel smothers | F |
| Rested once upon another's | F |
| When it was not clay | E |
A. E. Housman
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