Xvi: How Clear, How Lovely Bright Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCCB DDEFFFE GGBHHHB| How clear how lovely bright | A |
| How beautiful to sight | A |
| Those beams of morning play | B |
| How heaven laughs out with glee | C |
| Where like a bird set free | C |
| Up from the eastern sea | C |
| Soars the delightful day | B |
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| To day I shall be strong | D |
| No more shall yield to wrong | D |
| Shall squander life no more | E |
| Days lost I know not how | F |
| I shall retrieve them now | F |
| Now I shall keep the vow | F |
| I never kept before | E |
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| Ensanguining the skies | G |
| How heavily it dies | G |
| Into the west away | B |
| Past touch and sight and sound | H |
| Not further to be found | H |
| How hopeless under ground | H |
| Falls the remorseful day | B |
Alfred Edward Housman
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