Poems From "a Shropshire Lad" - Ix Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN COCOOn 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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