Poems From "a Shropshire Lad" - Xliv Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ EKEL AMAMShot so quick so clean an ending | A |
Oh that was right lad that was brave | B |
Yours was not an ill for mending | A |
'Twas best to take it to the grave | B |
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Oh you had forethought you could reason | C |
And saw your road and where it led | D |
And early wise and brave in season | C |
Put the pistol to your head | D |
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Oh soon and better so than later | E |
After long disgrace and scorn | F |
You shot dead the household traitor | E |
The soul that should not have been born | F |
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Right you guessed the rising morrow | G |
And scorned to tread the mire you must | H |
Dust's your wages son of sorrow | G |
But men may come to worse than dust | H |
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Souls undone undoing others | I |
Long time since the tale began | J |
You would not live to wrong your brothers | I |
Oh lad you died as fits a man | J |
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Now to your grave shall friend and stranger | E |
With ruth and some with envy come | K |
Undishonoured clear of danger | E |
Clean of guilt pass hence and home | L |
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Turn safe to rest no dreams no waking | A |
And here man here's the wreath I've made | M |
'Tis not a gift that's worth the taking | A |
But wear it and it will not fade | M |
Alfred Edward Housman
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