The Culprit Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAAA ABCBB CDEDD CFGFF HICII| The night my father got me | A |
| His mind was not on me | A |
| He did not plague his fancy | A |
| To muse if I should be | A |
| The son you see | A |
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| The day my mother bore me | A |
| She was a fool and glad | B |
| For all the pain I cost her | C |
| That she had borne the lad | B |
| That borne she had | B |
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| My mother and my father | C |
| Out of the light they lie | D |
| The warrant would not find them | E |
| And here 'tis only I | D |
| Shall hang so high | D |
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| Oh let not man remember | C |
| The soul that God forgot | F |
| But fetch the county kerchief | G |
| And noose me in the knot | F |
| And I will rot | F |
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| For so the game is ended | H |
| That should not have begun | I |
| My father and my mother | C |
| They had a likely son | I |
| And I have none | I |
Alfred Edward Housman
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