Poems From "a Shropshire Lad" - Xxxi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH AIAI| On 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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