Loitering With A Vacant Eye Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBBDDEE FFGGHHIICCJJDDKK| Loitering with a vacant eye | A |
| Along the Grecian gallery | B |
| And brooding on my heavy ill | C |
| I met a statue standing still | C |
| Still in marble stone stood he | B |
| And stedfastly he looked at me | B |
| Well met I thought the look would say | D |
| We both were fashioned far away | D |
| We neither knew when we were young | E |
| These Londoners we live among | E |
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| Still he stood and eyed me hard | F |
| An earnest and a grave regard | F |
| What lad drooping with your lot | G |
| I too would be where I am not | G |
| I too survey that endless line | H |
| Of men whose thoughts are not as mine | H |
| Years ere you stood up from rest | I |
| On my neck the collar prest | I |
| Years when you lay down your ill | C |
| I shall stand and bear it still | C |
| Courage lad 'tis not for long | J |
| Stand quit you like stone be strong | J |
| So I thought his look would say | D |
| And light on me my trouble lay | D |
| And I stept out in flesh and bone | K |
| Manful like the man of stone | K |
Alfred Edward Housman
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