Poems From "a Shropshire Lad" - Xi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCB DEDEFFEOn your midnight pallet lying | A |
Listen and undo the door | B |
Lads that waste the light in sighing | A |
In the dark should sigh no more | B |
Night should ease a lover's sorrow | C |
Therefore since I go to morrow | C |
Pity me before | B |
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In the land to which I travel | D |
The far dwelling let me say | E |
Once if here the couch is gravel | D |
In a kinder bed I lay | E |
And the breast the darnel smothers | F |
Rested once upon another's | F |
When it was not clay | E |
Alfred Edward Housman
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