The Deserter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIHI JKJL CMCA HNHN FOFO APAP| What sound awakened me I wonder | A |
| For now 'tis dumb | B |
| Wheels on the road most like or thunder | A |
| Lie down 'twas not the drum | B |
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| Toil at sea and two in haven | C |
| And trouble far | D |
| Fly crow away and follow raven | C |
| And all that croaks for war | E |
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| Hark I heard the bugle crying | F |
| And where am I | G |
| My friends are up and dressed and dying | F |
| And I will dress and die | G |
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| Oh love is rare and trouble plenty | H |
| And carrion cheap | I |
| And daylight dear at four and twenty | H |
| Lie down again and sleep | I |
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| Reach me my belt and leave your prattle | J |
| Your hour is gone | K |
| But my day is the day of battle | J |
| And that comes dawning on | L |
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| They mow the field of man in season | C |
| Farewell my fair | M |
| And call it truth or call it treason | C |
| Farewell the vows that were | A |
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| Ay false heart forsake me lightly | H |
| 'Tis like the brave | N |
| They find no bed to joy in rightly | H |
| Before they find the grave | N |
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| Their love is for their own undoing | F |
| And east and west | O |
| They scour about the world a wooing | F |
| The bullet in their breast | O |
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| Sail away the ocean over | A |
| Oh sail away | P |
| And lie there with your leaden lover | A |
| For ever and a day | P |
Alfred Edward Housman
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