Astronomy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG| The Wain upon the northern steep | A |
| Descends and lifts away | B |
| Oh I will sit me down and weep | A |
| For bones in Africa | C |
| - | |
| For pay and medals name and rank | D |
| Things that he has not found | E |
| He hove the Cross to heaven and sank | D |
| The pole star underground | E |
| - | |
| And now he does not even see | F |
| Signs of the nadir roll | G |
| At night over the ground where he | F |
| Is buried with the pole | G |
Alfred Edward Housman
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