Xxi: The World Goes None The Lamer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB BDED FGFG FHBH| The world goes none the lamer | A |
| For ought that I can see | B |
| Because this cursed trouble | C |
| Has struck my days and me | B |
| - | |
| The stars of heaven are steady | B |
| The founded hills remain | D |
| Though I to earth and darkness | E |
| Return in blood and pain | D |
| - | |
| Farewell to all belongings | F |
| I won or bought or stole | G |
| Farewell my lusty carcase | F |
| Farewell my aery soul | G |
| - | |
| Oh worse remains for others | F |
| And worse to fear had I | H |
| Than here at four and twenty | B |
| To lay me down and die | H |
Alfred Edward Housman
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