The Carpenter's Son Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD DDEE BBDD FFGH DDEE IIBB| Here the hangman stops his cart | A |
| Now the best of friends must part | A |
| Fare you well for ill fare I | B |
| Live lads and I will die | B |
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| Oh at home had I but stayed | C |
| 'Prenticed to my father's trade | C |
| Had I stuck to plane and adze | D |
| I had not been lost my lads | D |
| - | |
| Then I might have built perhaps | D |
| Gallows trees for other chaps | D |
| Never dangled on my own | E |
| Had I left but ill alone | E |
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| Now you see they hang me high | B |
| And the people passing by | B |
| Stop to shake their fists and curse | D |
| So 'tis come from ill to worse | D |
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| Here hang I and right and left | F |
| Two poor fellows hang for theft | F |
| All the same's the luck we prove | G |
| Though the midmost hangs for love | H |
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| Comrades all that stand and gaze | D |
| Walk henceforth in other ways | D |
| See my neck and save your own | E |
| Comrades all leave ill alone | E |
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| Make some day a decent end | I |
| Shrewder fellows than your friend | I |
| Fare you well for ill fare I | B |
| Live lads and I will die | B |
A. E. Housman
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