Xviii: The Rain It Streams On Stone And Hillock Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCB DEFFE FGGGG HIJJI KLMMN| The rain it streams on stone and hillock | A |
| The boot clings to the clay | B |
| Since all is done that's due and right | C |
| Let's home and now my lad good night | C |
| For I must turn away | B |
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| Good night my lad for nought's eternal | D |
| No league of ours for sure | E |
| To morrow I shall miss you less | F |
| And ache of heart and heaviness | F |
| Are things that time should cure | E |
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| Over the hill the highway marches | F |
| And what's beyond is wide | G |
| Oh soon enough will pine to nought | G |
| Remembrance and the faithful thought | G |
| That sits the grave beside | G |
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| The skies they are not always raining | H |
| Nor grey the twelvemonth through | I |
| And I shall meet good days and mirth | J |
| And range the lovely lands of earth | J |
| With friends no worse than you | I |
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| But oh my man the house is fallen | K |
| That none can build again | L |
| My man how full of joy and woe | M |
| Your mother bore you years ago | M |
| To night to lie in the rain | N |
Alfred Edward Housman
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