Poems From "a Shropshire Lad" - Xx Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIHI| Oh 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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