Poems From "a Shropshire Lad" - Xlvi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FFBBGGHIJJKKBring in this timeless grave to throw | A |
No cypress sombre on the snow | A |
Snap not from the bitter yew | B |
His leaves that live December through | B |
Break no rosemary bright with rime | C |
And sparkling to the cruel clime | C |
Nor plod the winter land to look | D |
For willows in the icy brook | D |
To cast them leafless round him bring | E |
No spray that ever buds in spring | E |
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But if the Christmas field has kept | F |
Awns the last gleaner overstept | F |
Or shrivelled flax whose flower is blue | B |
A single season never two | B |
Or if one haulm whose year is o'er | G |
Shivers on the upland frore | G |
Oh bring from hill and stream and plain | H |
Whatever will not flower again | I |
To give him comfort he and those | J |
Shall bide eternal bedfellows | J |
Where low upon the couch he lies | K |
Whence he never shall arise | K |
Alfred Edward Housman
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