To An Athlete Dying Young Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEE FFGG HHII JJKK LLMM NNOO| The time you won your town the race | A |
| We chaired you through the market place | A |
| Man and boy stood cheering by | B |
| And home we brought you shoulder high | B |
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| To day the road all runners come | C |
| Shoulder high we bring you home | D |
| And set you at your threshold down | E |
| Townsman of a stiller town | E |
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| Smart lad to slip betimes away | F |
| From fields where glory does not stay | F |
| And early though the laurel grows | G |
| It withers quicker than the rose | G |
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| Eyes the shady night has shut | H |
| Cannot see the record cut | H |
| And silence sounds no worse than cheers | I |
| After earth has stopped the ears | I |
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| Now you will not swell the rout | J |
| Of lads that wore their honours out | J |
| Runners whom renown outran | K |
| And the name died before the man | K |
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| So set before its echoes fade | L |
| The fleet foot on the sill of shade | L |
| And hold to the low lintel up | M |
| The still defended challenge cup | M |
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| And round that early laurelled head | N |
| Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead | N |
| And find unwithered on its curls | O |
| The garland briefer than a girl's | O |
A. E. Housman
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