Others, I Am Not The First Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EECC FFGGOthers I am not the first | A |
Have willed more mischief than they durst | A |
If in the breathless night I too | B |
Shiver now 'tis nothing new | B |
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More than I if truth were told | C |
Have stood and sweated hot and cold | C |
And through their reins in ice and fire | D |
Fear contended with desire | D |
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Agued once like me were they | E |
But I like them shall win my way | E |
Lastly to the bed of mould | C |
Where there's neither heat nor cold | C |
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But from my grave across my brow | F |
Plays no wind of healing now | F |
And fire and ice within me fight | G |
Beneath the suffocating night | G |
Alfred Edward Housman
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