Poems From "a Shropshire Lad" - Viii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH DFDF DDDD| Farewell to barn and stack and tree | A |
| Farewell to Severn shore | B |
| Terence look your last at me | A |
| For I come home no more | B |
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| The sun burns on the half mown hill | C |
| By now the blood is dried | D |
| And Maurice amongst the hay lies still | C |
| And my knife is in his side | D |
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| My mother thinks us long away | E |
| 'Tis time the field were mown | F |
| She had two sons at rising day | E |
| To night she'll be alone | F |
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| And here's a bloody hand to shake | G |
| And oh man here's good bye | H |
| We'll sweat no more on scythe and rake | G |
| My bloody hands and I | H |
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| I wish you strength to bring you pride | D |
| And a love to keep you clean | F |
| And I wish you luck come Lammastide | D |
| At racing on the green | F |
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| Long for me the rick will wait | D |
| And long will wait the fold | D |
| And long will stand the empty plate | D |
| And dinner will be cold | D |
Alfred Edward Housman
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