Farewell To Barn And Stack And Tree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH DFDF DDDDFarewell to barn and stack and tree | A |
Farewell to Severn shore | B |
Terence look your last at me | A |
For I come home no more | B |
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The sun burns on the half mown hill | C |
By now the blood is dried | D |
And Maurice amongst the hay lies still | C |
And my knife is in his side | D |
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My mother thinks us long away | E |
'Tis time the field were mown | F |
She had two sons at rising day | E |
To night she'll be alone | F |
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And here's a bloody hand to shake | G |
And oh man here's good bye | H |
We'll sweat no more on scythe and rake | G |
My bloody hands and I | H |
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I wish you strength to bring you pride | D |
And a love to keep you clean | F |
And I wish you luck come Lammastide | D |
At racing on the green | F |
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Long for me the rick will wait | D |
And long will wait the fold | D |
And long will stand the empty plate | D |
And dinner will be cold | D |
Alfred Edward Housman
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