The Stinging Nettle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CDCDD| The stinging nettle only | A |
| Will still be found to stand | B |
| The numberless the lonely | A |
| The thronger of the land | B |
| The leaf that hurts the hand | B |
| - | |
| That thrives come sun come showers | C |
| Blow east blow west it springs | D |
| It peoples towns and towers | C |
| Above the courts of Kings | D |
| And touch it and it stings | D |
Alfred Edward Housman
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