Xlvii: For My Funeral Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGDG| O thou that from thy mansion | A |
| Through time and place to roam | B |
| Dost send abroad thy children | A |
| And then dost call them home | B |
| - | |
| That men and tribes and nations | C |
| And all thy hand hath made | D |
| May shelter them from sunshine | E |
| In thine eternal shade | D |
| - | |
| We now to peace and darkness | F |
| And earth and thee restore | G |
| Thy creature that thou madest | D |
| And wilt cast forth no more | G |
Alfred Edward Housman
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about Xlvii: For My Funeral poem by Alfred Edward Housman
Best Poems of Alfred Edward Housman