In Valleys Green And Still Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GBGB HBHB| In valleys green and still | A |
| Where lovers wander maying | B |
| They hear from over hill | A |
| A music playing | B |
| - | |
| Behind the drum and fife | C |
| Past hawthornwood and hollow | D |
| Through earth and out of life | C |
| The soldiers follow | D |
| - | |
| The soldier's is the trade | E |
| In any wind or weather | F |
| He steals the heart of maid | E |
| And man together | F |
| - | |
| The lover and his lass | G |
| Beneath the hawthorn lying | B |
| Have heard the soldiers pass | G |
| And both are sighing | B |
| - | |
| And down the distance they | H |
| With dying note and swelling | B |
| Walk the resounding way | H |
| To the still dwelling | B |
Alfred Edward Housman
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