Lancer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FBFB AAB FGFG FBFB AABI 'listed at home for a lancer | A |
Oh who would not sleep with the brave | B |
I 'listed at home for a lancer | A |
To ride on a horse to my grave | B |
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And over the seas we were bidden | C |
A country to take and to keep | D |
And far with the brave I have ridden | E |
And now with the brave I shall sleep | D |
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For round me the men will be lying | F |
That learned me the way to behave | B |
And showed me my business of dying | F |
Oh who would not sleep with the brave | B |
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They ask and there is not an answer | A |
Says I I will 'list for a lancer | A |
Oh who would not sleep with the brave | B |
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And I with the brave shall be sleeping | F |
At ease on my mattress of loam | G |
When back from their taking and keeping | F |
The squadron is riding home | G |
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The wind with the plumes will be playing | F |
The girls will stand watching them wave | B |
And eyeing my comrades and saying | F |
Oh who would not sleep with the brave | B |
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They ask and there is not an answer | A |
Says you I will 'list for a lancer | A |
Oh who would not sleep with the brave | B |
Alfred Edward Housman
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