Sinner's Rue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DCEC CBFB AGHG CBFB| I walked alone and thinking | A |
| And faint the nightwind blew | B |
| And stirred on mounds at crossways | C |
| The flower of sinner's rue | B |
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| Where the roads part they bury | D |
| Him that his own hand slays | C |
| And so the weed of sorrow | E |
| Springs at the four cross ways | C |
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| By night I plucked it hueless | C |
| When morning broke 'twas blue | B |
| Blue at my breast I fastened | F |
| The flower of sinner's rue | B |
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| It seemed a herb of healing | A |
| A balsam and a sign | G |
| Flower of a heart whose trouble | H |
| Must have been worse than mine | G |
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| Dead clay that did me kindness | C |
| I can do none to you | B |
| But only wear for breastknot | F |
| The flower of sinner's rue | B |
Alfred Edward Housman
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