In Valleys Of Springs And Rivers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DBDB BEBE AFAF AAAA ABAB BBBB| Clunton and Clunbury | A |
| Clungunford and Clun | B |
| Are the quietest places | C |
| Under the sun | B |
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| In valleys of springs and rivers | D |
| By Ony and Teme and Clun | B |
| The country for easy livers | D |
| The quietest under the sun | B |
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| We still had sorrows to lighten | B |
| One could not be always glad | E |
| And lads knew trouble at Knighton | B |
| When I was a Knighton lad | E |
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| By bridges that Thames runs under | A |
| In London the town built ill | F |
| 'Tis sure small matter for wonder | A |
| If sorrow is with one still | F |
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| And if as a lad grows older | A |
| The troubles he bears are more | A |
| He carries his griefs on a shoulder | A |
| That handselled them long before | A |
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| Where shall one halt to deliver | A |
| This luggage I'd lief set down | B |
| Not Thames not Teme is the river | A |
| Nor London nor Knighton the town | B |
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| 'Tis a long way further than Knighton | B |
| A quieter place than Clun | B |
| Where doomsday may thunder and lighten | B |
| And little 'twill matter to one | B |
Alfred Edward Housman
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