Xv: 'tis Five Years Since, An End Said I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEF GGHH IIJJ KKLL| 'Tis five years since An end ' said I | A |
| I'll march no further time to die | A |
| All's lost no worse has heaven to give ' | B |
| Worse has it given and yet I live | C |
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| I shall not die to day no fear | D |
| I shall live yet for many a year | D |
| And see worse ills and worse again | E |
| And die of age and not of pain | F |
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| When God would rear from earth aloof | G |
| The blue height of the hollow roof | G |
| He sought him pillars sure and strong | H |
| And ere he found them sought them long | H |
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| The stark steel splintered from the thrust | I |
| The basalt mountain sprang to dust | I |
| The blazing pier of diamond flawed | J |
| In shards of rainbow all abroad | J |
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| What found he that the heavens stand fast | K |
| What pillar proven firm at last | K |
| Bears up so light that world seen span | L |
| The heart of man the heart of man | L |
Alfred Edward Housman
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