In My Own Shire, If I Was Sad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHII JJKKLLMMNNOOPP| In my own shire if I was sad | A |
| Homely comforters I had | A |
| The earth because my heart was sore | B |
| Sorrowed for the son she bore | B |
| And standing hills long to remain | C |
| Shared their short lived comrade's pain | C |
| And bound for the same bourn as I | D |
| On every road I wandered by | D |
| Trod beside me close and dear | E |
| The beautiful and death struck year | E |
| Whether in the woodland brown | F |
| I heard the beechnut rustle down | F |
| And saw the purple crocus pale | G |
| Flower about the autumn dale | G |
| Or littering far the fields of May | H |
| Lady smocks a bleaching lay | H |
| And like a skylit water stood | I |
| The bluebells in the azured wood | I |
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| Yonder lightening other loads | J |
| The seasons range the country roads | J |
| But here in London streets I ken | K |
| No such helpmates only men | K |
| And these are not in plight to bear | L |
| If they would another's care | L |
| They have enough as 'tis I see | M |
| In many an eye that measures me | M |
| The mortal sickness of a mind | N |
| Too unhappy to be kind | N |
| Undone with misery all they can | O |
| Is to hate their fellow man | O |
| And till they drop they needs must still | P |
| Look at you and wish you ill | P |
Alfred Edward Housman
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