Xl: Farewell To A Name And Number Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE DFDF| Farewell to a name and a number | A |
| Recalled again | B |
| To darkness and silence and slumber | A |
| In blood and pain | C |
| - | |
| So ceases and turns to the thing | D |
| He was born to be | E |
| A soldier cheap to the King | D |
| And dear to me | E |
| - | |
| So smothers in blood the burning | D |
| And flaming flight | F |
| Of valour and truth returning | D |
| To dust and night | F |
Alfred Edward Housman
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