The Carpenter's Son Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD DDEE BBDD FFGH DDEE IIBB

Here the hangman stops his cartA
Now the best of friends must partA
Fare you well for ill fare IB
Live lads and I will dieB
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Oh at home had I but stayedC
'Prenticed to my father's tradeC
Had I stuck to plane and adzeD
I had not been lost my ladsD
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Then I might have built perhapsD
Gallows trees for other chapsD
Never dangled on my ownE
Had I left but ill aloneE
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Now you see they hang me highB
And the people passing byB
Stop to shake their fists and curseD
So 'tis come from ill to worseD
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Here hang I and right and leftF
Two poor fellows hang for theftF
All the same's the luck we proveG
Though the midmost hangs for loveH
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Comrades all that stand and gazeD
Walk henceforth in other waysD
See my neck and save your ownE
Comrades all leave ill aloneE
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Make some day a decent endI
Shrewder fellows than your friendI
Fare you well for ill fare IB
Live lads and I will dieB

Alfred Edward Housman



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