As Through The Wild Green Hills Of Wyre Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDCCEEFFGGHHIICC JJKKLLMMCCDDNNOO| As through the wild green hills of Wyre | A |
| The train ran changing sky and shire | A |
| And far behind a fading crest | B |
| Low in the forsaken west | B |
| Sank the high reared head of Clee | C |
| My hand lay empty on my knee | D |
| Aching on my knee it lay | C |
| That morning half a shire away | C |
| So many an honest fellow's fist | E |
| Had well nigh wrung it from the wrist | E |
| Hand said I since now we part | F |
| From fields and men we know by heart | F |
| For strangers' faces strangers' lands | G |
| Hand you have held true fellows' hands | G |
| Be clean then rot before you do | H |
| A thing they'll not believe of you | H |
| You and I must keep from shame | I |
| In London streets the Shropshire name | I |
| On banks of Thames they must not say | C |
| Severn breeds worse men than they | C |
| And friends abroad must bear in mind | J |
| Friends at home they leave behind | J |
| Oh I shall be stiff and cold | K |
| When I forget you hearts of gold | K |
| The land where I shall mind you not | L |
| Is the land where all's forgot | L |
| And if my foot returns no more | M |
| To Teme nor Corve nor Severn shore | M |
| Luck my lads be with you still | C |
| By falling stream and standing hill | C |
| By chiming tower and whispering tree | D |
| Men that made a man of me | D |
| About your work in town and farm | N |
| Still you'll keep my head from harm | N |
| Still you'll help me hands that gave | O |
| A grasp to friend me to the grave | O |
Alfred Edward Housman
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