The Welsh Marches Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFG HHII JJKK LLBB BBBB BBMM BBNN| High the vanes of Shrewsbury gleam | A |
| Islanded in Severn stream | A |
| The bridges from the steepled crest | B |
| Cross the water east and west | B |
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| The flag of morn in conqueror's state | C |
| Enters at the English gate | C |
| The vanquished eve as night prevails | D |
| Bleeds upon the road to Wales | D |
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| Ages since the vanquished bled | E |
| Round my mother's marriage bed | E |
| There the ravens feasted far | F |
| About the open house of war | G |
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| When Severn down to Buildwas ran | H |
| Coloured with the death of man | H |
| Couched upon her brother's grave | I |
| That Saxon got me on the slave | I |
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| The sound of fight is silent long | J |
| That began the ancient wrong | J |
| Long the voice of tears is still | K |
| That wept of old the endless ill | K |
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| In my heart it has not died | L |
| The war that sleeps on Severn side | L |
| They cease not fighting east and west | B |
| On the marches of my breat | B |
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| Here the truceless armies yet | B |
| Trample rolled in blood and sweat | B |
| They kill and kill and never die | B |
| And I think that each is I | B |
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| None will part us none undo | B |
| The knot that makes one flesh of two | B |
| Sick with hatred sick with pain | M |
| Strangling When shall we be slain | M |
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| When shall I be dead and rid | B |
| Of the wrong my father did | B |
| How long how long till spade and hearse | N |
| Puts to sleep my mother's curse | N |
A. E. Housman
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