Poems From "a Shropshire Lad" - Xix - To An Athlete Dying Young Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEE FFGG HHII JJKK LLMM NNOOThe time you won your town the race | A |
We chaired you through the market place | A |
Man and boy stood cheering by | B |
And home we brought you shoulder high | B |
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To day the road all runners come | C |
Shoulder high we bring you home | D |
And set you at your threshold down | E |
Townsman of a stiller town | E |
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Smart lad to slip betimes away | F |
From fields where glory does not stay | F |
And early though the laurel grows | G |
It withers quicker than the rose | G |
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Eyes the shady night has shut | H |
Cannot see the record cut | H |
And silence sounds no worse than cheers | I |
After earth has stopped the ears | I |
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Now you will not swell the rout | J |
Of lads that wore their honours out | J |
Runners whom renown outran | K |
And the name died before the man | K |
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So set before its echoes fade | L |
The fleet foot on the sill of shade | L |
And hold to the low lintel up | M |
The still defended challenge cup | M |
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And round that early laurelled head | N |
Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead | N |
And find unwithered on its curls | O |
The garland briefer than a girl's | O |
Alfred Edward Housman
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