Fancy's Knell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFEF ECEGHIHI EJEJEKEK KLKLCKCK EBEBKMKN| When lads were home from labour | A |
| At Abdon under Clee | B |
| A man would call his neighbor | C |
| And both would send for me | D |
| And where the light in lances | E |
| Across the mead was laid | F |
| There to the dances | E |
| I fetched my flute and played | F |
| - | |
| Ours were idle pleasures | E |
| Yet oh content we were | C |
| The young to wind the measures | E |
| The old to heed the air | G |
| And I to lift with playing | H |
| From tree and tower and steep | I |
| The light delaying | H |
| And flute the sun to sleep | I |
| - | |
| The youth toward his fancy | E |
| Would turn his brow of tan | J |
| And Tom would pair with Nancy | E |
| And Dick step off with Fan | J |
| The girl would lift her glances | E |
| To his and both be mute | K |
| Well went the dances | E |
| At evening to the flute | K |
| - | |
| Wenlock Edge was umbered | K |
| And bright was Abdon Burf | L |
| And warm between them slumbered | K |
| The smooth green miles of turf | L |
| Until from grass and clover | C |
| The upshot beam would fade | K |
| And England over | C |
| Advanced the lofty shade | K |
| - | |
| The lofty shade advances | E |
| I fetch my flute and play | B |
| Come lads and learn the dances | E |
| And praise the tune to day | B |
| To morrow more's the pity | K |
| Away we both must hie | M |
| To air the ditty | K |
| And to earth I | N |
Alfred Edward Housman
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