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The Gallows Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FFFFGDHE IJIJCDCE KFKFFDFE

There was a weasel lived in the sunA
With all his familyB
Till a keeper shot him with his gunA
And hung him up on a treeB
Where he swings in the wind and rainC
In the sun and in the snowD
Without pleasure without painC
On the dead oak tree boughE
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There was a crow who was no sleeperF
But a thief and a murdererF
Till a very late hour and this keeperF
Made him one of the things that wereF
To hang and flap in rain and windG
In the sun and in the snowD
There are no more sins to be sinnedH
On the dead oak tree boughE
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There was a magpie tooI
Had a long tongue and a long tailJ
He could talk and doI
But what did that availJ
He too flaps in the wind and rainC
Alongside weasel and crowD
Without pleasue without painC
On the dead oak tree boughE
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And many other beastsK
And birds skin bone and featherF
Have been taken from their feastsK
And hung up there togetherF
To swing and have endless leisureF
In the sun and in the snowD
Without pain without pleasureF
On the dead oak tree boughE

Edward Thomas



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