Poems From "a Shropshire Lad" - Xxxi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH AIAIOn Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble | A |
His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves | B |
The gale it plies the saplings double | A |
And thick on Severn snow the leaves | B |
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'Twould blow like this through holt and hanger | C |
When Uricon the city stood | D |
'Tis the old wind in the old anger | C |
But then it threshed another wood | D |
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Then 'twas before my time the Roman | E |
At yonder heaving hill would stare | F |
The blood that warms an English yeoman | E |
The thoughts that hurt him they were there | F |
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There like the wind through woods in riot | G |
Through him the gale of life blew high | H |
The tree of man was never quiet | G |
Then 'twas the Roman now 'tis I | H |
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The gale it plies the saplings double | A |
It blows so hard 'twill soon be gone | I |
To day the Roman and his trouble | A |
Are ashes under Uricon | I |
Alfred Edward Housman
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