Death In June'for Cricketers Only Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCBC DEDFDF GHGHHH IJIJIJ| June is the month of Suicides | A |
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| Why do we slay ourselves in June | B |
| When life if ever seems so sweet | C |
| When Moon and tune and afternoon | B |
| And other happy rhymes we meet | C |
| When strawberries are coming soon | B |
| Why do we do it ' you repeat | C |
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| Ah careless butterfly to thee | D |
| The strawberry seems passing good | E |
| And sweet on Music's wings to flee | D |
| Amid the waltzing multitude | F |
| And revel late perchance till three | D |
| For Love is monarch of thy mood | F |
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| Alas to US no solace shows | G |
| For sorrows we endure at Lord's | H |
| When Oxford's bowling ALWAYS goes | G |
| For 'fours ' for ever to the cords | H |
| Or more perhaps with 'overthrows' | H |
| These things can pierce the heart like swords | H |
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| And thus it is though woods are green | I |
| Though mayflies down the Test are rolling | J |
| Though sweet the silver showers between | I |
| The finches sing in strains consoling | J |
| We cut our throats for very spleen | I |
| And very shame of Oxford's bowling | J |
Andrew Lang
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