The First Of May Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFCGCG HIHIHAHA JKJKDLDK| The orchards half the way | A |
| From home to Ludlow fair | B |
| Flowered on the first of May | A |
| In Mays when I was there | B |
| And seen from stile or turning | C |
| The plume of smoke would show | D |
| Where fires were burning | C |
| That went out long ago | D |
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| The plum broke forth in green | E |
| The pear stood high and snowed | F |
| My friends and I between | E |
| Would take the Ludlow road | F |
| Dressed to the nines and drinking | C |
| And light in heart and limb | G |
| And each chap thinking | C |
| The fair was held for him | G |
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| Between the trees in flower | H |
| New friends at fairtime tread | I |
| The way where Ludlow tower | H |
| Stands planted on the dead | I |
| Our thoughts a long while after | H |
| They think our words they say | A |
| Theirs now's the laughter | H |
| The fair the first of May | A |
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| Ay yonder lads are yet | J |
| The fools that we were then | K |
| For oh the sons we get | J |
| Are still the sons of men | K |
| The sumless tale of sorrow | D |
| Is all unrolled in vain | L |
| May comes to morrow | D |
| And Ludlow fair again | K |
Alfred Edward Housman
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