Epitaph On An Army Of Mercenaries Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD| These in the day when heaven was falling | A |
| The hour when earth's foundations fled | B |
| Followed their mercenary calling | A |
| And took their wages and are dead | B |
| - | |
| Their shoulders held the sky suspended | C |
| They stood and earth's foundations stay | D |
| What God abandoned these defended | C |
| And saved the sum of things for pay | D |
Alfred Edward Housman
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