Poems From "a Shropshire Lad" - Xlvii - The Carpenter's Son Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD DDEE BBDD FFGH DDEE IIBBHere the hangman stops his cart | A |
Now the best of friends must part | A |
Fare you well for ill fare I | B |
Live lads and I will die | B |
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Oh at home had I but stayed | C |
'Prenticed to my father's trade | C |
Had I stuck to plane and adze | D |
I had not been lost my lads | D |
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Then I might have built perhaps | D |
Gallows trees for other chaps | D |
Never dangled on my own | E |
Had I but left ill alone | E |
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Now you see they hang me high | B |
And the people passing by | B |
Stop to shake their fists and curse | D |
So 'tis come from ill to worse | D |
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Here hang I and right and left | F |
Two poor fellows hang for theft | F |
All the same's the luck we prove | G |
Though the midmost hangs for love | H |
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Comrades all that stand and gaze | D |
Walk henceforth in other ways | D |
See my neck and save your own | E |
Comrades all leave ill alone | E |
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Make some day a decent end | I |
Shrewder fellows than your friend | I |
Fare you well for ill fare I | B |
Live lads and I will die | B |
Alfred Edward Housman
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