An Epitaph For A Husbandman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCEFGFH IJIJ KLKL MNMN OPOP| He who would start and rise | A |
| Before the crowing cocks | B |
| No more he lifts his eyes | A |
| Whoever knocks | B |
| He who before the stars | C |
| Would call the cattle home | D |
| They wait about the bars | C |
| For him to come | E |
| Him at whose hearty calls | F |
| The farmstead woke again | G |
| The horses in their stalls | F |
| Expect in vain | H |
| - | |
| Busy and blithe and bold | I |
| He laboured for the morrow | J |
| The plough his hands would hold | I |
| Rusts in the furrow | J |
| - | |
| His fields he had to leave | K |
| His orchards cool and dim | L |
| The clods he used to cleave | K |
| Now cover him | L |
| - | |
| But the green growing things | M |
| Lean kindly to his sleep | N |
| White roots and wandering strings | M |
| Closer they creep | N |
| - | |
| Because he loved them long | O |
| And with them bore his part | P |
| Tenderly now they throng | O |
| About his heart | P |
Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
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