The Chestnut Casts His Flambeaux Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IDID AAAA JKJK| The chestnut casts his flambeaux and the flowers | A |
| Stream from the hawthorn on the wind away | B |
| The doors clap to the pane is blind with showers | A |
| Pass me the can lad there's an end of May | B |
| - | |
| There's one spoilt spring to scant our mortal lot | C |
| One season ruined of your little store | D |
| May will be fine next year as like as not | C |
| But ay but then we shall be twenty four | D |
| - | |
| We for a certainty are not the first | E |
| Have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled | F |
| Their hopeful plans to emptiness and cursed | E |
| Whatever brute and blackguard made the world | F |
| - | |
| It is in truth iniquity on high | G |
| To cheat our sentenced souls of aught they crave | H |
| And mar the merriment as you and I | G |
| Fare on our long fool's errand to the grave | H |
| - | |
| Iniquity it is but pass the can | I |
| My lad no pair of kings our mothers bore | D |
| Our only portion is the estate of man | I |
| We want the moon but we shall get no more | D |
| - | |
| If here to day the cloud of thunder lours | A |
| To morrow it will hie on far behests | A |
| The flesh will grieve on other bones than ours | A |
| Soon and the soul will mourn in other breasts | A |
| - | |
| The troubles of our proud and angry dust | J |
| Are from eternity and shall not fail | K |
| Bear them we can and if we can we must | J |
| Shoulder the sky my lad and drink your ale | K |
Alfred Edward Housman
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about The Chestnut Casts His Flambeaux poem by Alfred Edward Housman
Best Poems of Alfred Edward Housman