Poems From "a Shropshire Lad" - Ii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF| Loveliest of trees the cherry now | A |
| Is hung with bloom along the bough | A |
| And stands about the woodland ride | B |
| Wearing white for Eastertide | B |
| - | |
| Now of my threescore years and ten | C |
| Twenty will not come again | C |
| And take from seventy springs a score | D |
| It only leaves me fifty more | D |
| - | |
| And since to look at things in bloom | E |
| Fifty springs are little room | E |
| About the woodlands I will go | F |
| To see the cherry hung with snow | F |
Alfred Edward Housman
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