The Oldest Drama Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGFH DADA| It fell on a day that he went out to his father to the reapers | A |
| And he said unto his father My head my head And he said to a lad | B |
| Carry him to his mother And he sat on her knees till noon | C |
| and then died And she went up and laid him on the bed | D |
| And shut the door upon him and went out | E |
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| Immortal story that no mother's heart | F |
| Ev'n yet can read nor feel the biting pain | G |
| That rent her soul Immortal not by art | F |
| Which makes a long past sorrow sting again | H |
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| Like grief of yesterday but since it said | D |
| In simplest word the truth which all may see | A |
| Where any mother sobs above her dead | D |
| And plays anew the silent tragedy | A |
John Alexander Mccrae
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