This Time Of Year A Twelvemonth Past Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGHThis time of year a twelvemonth past | A |
When Fred and I would meet | B |
We needs must jangle till at last | A |
We fought and I was beat | B |
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So then the summer fields about | C |
Till rainy days began | D |
Rose Harland on her Sundays out | C |
Walked with the better man | D |
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The better man she walks with still | E |
Though now 'tis not with Fred | F |
A lad that lives and has his will | E |
Is worth a dozen dead | F |
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Fred keeps the house all kinds of weather | G |
And clay's the house he keeps | H |
When Rose and I walk out together | G |
Stock still lies Fred and sleeps | H |
A. E. Housman
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