Poems From "a Shropshire Lad" - Xxxv Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ACAC DEDF GHGH| On the idle hill of summer | A |
| Sleepy with the flow of streams | B |
| Far I hear the steady drummer | A |
| Drumming like a noise in dreams | B |
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| Far and near and low and louder | A |
| On the roads of earth go by | C |
| Dear to friends and food for powder | A |
| Soldiers marching all to die | C |
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| East and west on fields forgotten | D |
| Bleach the bones of comrades slain | E |
| Lovely lads and dead and rotten | D |
| None that go return again | F |
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| Far the calling bugles hollo | G |
| High the screaming fife replies | H |
| Gay the files of scarlet follow | G |
| Woman bore me I will rise | H |
Alfred Edward Housman
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