Poems From "a Shropshire Lad" - I - 1887 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG DHDH IJIJ KLKL MNMN OPOE| From Clee to heaven the beacon burns | A |
| The shires have seen it plain | B |
| From north and south the sign returns | A |
| And beacons burn again | C |
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| Look left look right the hills are bright | D |
| The dales are light between | E |
| Because 'tis fifty years to night | D |
| That God has saved the Queen | E |
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| Now when the flame they watch not towers | F |
| About the soil they trod | G |
| Lads we'll remember friends of ours | F |
| Who shared the work with God | G |
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| To skies that knit their heartstrings right | D |
| To fields that bred them brave | H |
| The saviours come not home to night | D |
| Themselves they could not save | H |
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| It dawns in Asia tombstones show | I |
| And Shropshire names are read | J |
| And the Nile spills his overflow | I |
| Beside the Severn's dead | J |
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| We pledge in peace by farm and town | K |
| The Queen they served in war | L |
| And fire the beacons up and down | K |
| The land they perished for | L |
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| God Save the Queen we living sing | M |
| From height to height 'tis heard | N |
| And with the rest your voices ring | M |
| Lads of the Fifty third | N |
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| Oh God will save her fear you not | O |
| Be you the men you've been | P |
| Get you the sons your fathers got | O |
| And God will Save the Queen | E |
Alfred Edward Housman
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