Xxxv: When First My Way To Fair I Took Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF| When first my way to fair I took | A |
| Few pence in purse had I | B |
| And long I used to stand and look | A |
| At things I could not buy | B |
| - | |
| Now times are altered if I care | C |
| To buy a thing I can | D |
| The pence are here and here's the fair | C |
| But where's the lost young man | D |
| - | |
| To think that two and two are four | E |
| And neither five nor three | F |
| The heart of man has long been sore | E |
| And long 'tis like to be | F |
Alfred Edward Housman
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