On Moonlit Heath And Lonesome Bank Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN COCO| On moonlit heath and lonesome bank | A |
| The sheep beside me graze | B |
| And yon the gallows used to clank | A |
| Fast by the four cross ways | B |
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| A careless shepherd once would keep | C |
| The flocks by moonlight there | D |
| And high amongst the glimmering sheep | C |
| The dead man stood on air | D |
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| They hang us now in Shrewsbury jail | E |
| The whistles blow forlorn | F |
| And trains all night groan on the rail | E |
| To men that die at morn | F |
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| There sleeps in Shrewsbury jail to night | G |
| Or wakes as may betide | H |
| A better lad if things went right | G |
| Than most that sleep outside | H |
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| And naked to the hangman's noose | I |
| The morning clocks will ring | J |
| A neck God made for other use | I |
| Than strangling in a string | J |
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| And sharp the link of life will snap | K |
| And dead on air will stand | L |
| Heels that held up as straight a chap | K |
| As treads upon the land | L |
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| So here I'll watch the night and wait | M |
| To see the morning shine | N |
| When he will hear the stroke of eight | M |
| And not the stroke of nine | N |
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| And wish my friend as sound a sleep | C |
| As lads' I did not know | O |
| That shepherded the moonlit sheep | C |
| A hundred years ago | O |
Alfred Edward Housman
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