This Time Of Year A Twelvemonth Past Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH| This 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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