The New Mistress Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEE FFGG HHIIOh sick I am to see you will you never let me be | A |
You may be good for something but you are not good for me | A |
Oh go where you are wanted for you are not wanted here | B |
And that was all the farewell when I parted from my dear | C |
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I will go where I am wanted to a lady born and bred | D |
Who will dress me free for nothing in a uniform of red | D |
She will not be sick to see me if I only keep it clean | E |
I will go where I am wanted for a soldier of the Queen | E |
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I will go where I am wanted for the sergeant does not mind | F |
He may be sick to see me but he treats me very kind | F |
He gives me beer and breakfast and a ribbon for my cap | G |
And I never knew a sweetheart spend her money on a chap | G |
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I will go where I am wanted where there's room for one or two | H |
And the men are none too many for the work there is to do | H |
Where the standing line wears thinner and the dropping dead lie thick | I |
And the enemies of England they shall see me and be sick | I |
A. E. Housman
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