Poems From "a Shropshire Lad" - Xx Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIHIOh fair enough are sky and plain | A |
But I know fairer far | B |
Those are as beautiful again | C |
That in the water are | B |
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The pools and rivers wash so clean | D |
The trees and clouds and air | E |
The like on earth was never seen | D |
And oh that I were there | E |
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These are the thoughts I often think | F |
As I stand gazing down | G |
In act upon the cressy brink | F |
To strip and dive and drown | G |
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But in the golden sanded brooks | H |
And azure meres I spy | I |
A silly lad that longs and looks | H |
And wishes he were I | I |
Alfred Edward Housman
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