Poems From "a Shropshire Lad" - Xxvii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB CDED AFEF AGEG HIAI HJKJ HLML HNON| Is my team ploughing | A |
| That I was used to drive | B |
| And hear the harness jingle | C |
| When I was man alive | B |
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| Ay the horses trample | C |
| The harness jingles now | D |
| No change though you lie under | E |
| The land you used to plough | D |
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| Is football playing | A |
| Along the river shore | F |
| With lads to chase the leather | E |
| Now I stand up no more | F |
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| Ay the ball is flying | A |
| The lads play heart and soul | G |
| The goal stands up the keeper | E |
| Stands up to keep the goal | G |
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| Is my girl happy | H |
| That I thought hard to leave | I |
| And has she tired of weeping | A |
| As she lies down at eve | I |
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| Ay she lies down lightly | H |
| She lies not down to weep | J |
| Your girl is well contented | K |
| Be still my lad and sleep | J |
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| Is my friend hearty | H |
| Now I am thin and pine | L |
| And has he found to sleep in | M |
| A better bed than mine | L |
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| Yes lad I lie easy | H |
| I lie as lads would choose | N |
| I cheer a dead man's sweetheart | O |
| Never ask me whose | N |
Alfred Edward Housman
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