Since We Must Die Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD AAAAEFEF AGAGHIHI AJAJAAAAA| Though we must die I would not die | A |
| When fields are brown and bleak | B |
| When wild geese stream across the sky | A |
| And the cart lodge timbers creak | B |
| For it would be so lone and drear | C |
| To sleep beneath the snow | D |
| When children carol Christmas cheer | C |
| And Christmas rafters glow | D |
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| Nor would I die though we must die | A |
| When yeanlings blindly bleat | A |
| When the cuckoo laughs and lovers sigh | A |
| And O to live is sweet | A |
| When cowslips come again and Spring | E |
| Is winsome with their breath | F |
| And Life's in love with everything | E |
| With everything but Death | F |
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| Let me not die though we must die | A |
| When bowls are brimmed with cream | G |
| When milch cows in the meadows lie | A |
| Or wade amid the stream | G |
| When dewy dimpled roses smile | H |
| To see the face of June | I |
| And lad and lass meet at the stile | H |
| Or roam beneath the moon | I |
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| Since we must die then let me die | A |
| When flows the harvest ale | J |
| When the reaper lays the sickle by | A |
| And taketh down the flail | J |
| When all we prized and all we planned | A |
| Is ripe and stored at last | A |
| And Autumn looks across the land | A |
| And ponders on the past | A |
| Then let me die | A |
Alfred Austin
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