Poems From "a Shropshire Lad" - Xxxv Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ACAC DEDF GHGHOn 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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