By Henstridge Cross At The Year's End Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAA AAAAA ACCAA ACCAA ADDAA AEEBA F| Why go the east road now | A |
| That way a youth went on a morrow | B |
| After mirth and he brought back sorrow | B |
| Painted upon his brow | A |
| Why go the east road now | A |
| - | |
| Why go the north road now | A |
| Torn leaf strewn as if scoured by foemen | A |
| Once edging fiefs of my forefolk yeomen | A |
| Fallows fat to the plough | A |
| Why go the north road now | A |
| - | |
| Why go the west road now | A |
| Thence to us came she bosom burning | C |
| Welcome with joyousness returning | C |
| She sleeps under the bough | A |
| Why go the west road now | A |
| - | |
| Why go the south road now | A |
| That way marched they some are forgetting | C |
| Stark to the moon left past regretting | C |
| Loves who have falsed their vow | A |
| Why go the south road now | A |
| - | |
| Why go any road now | A |
| White stands the handpost for brisk on bearers | D |
| Halt is the word for wan cheeked farers | D |
| Musing on Whither and How | A |
| Why go any road now | A |
| - | |
| Yea we want new feet now | A |
| Answer the stones Want chit chat laughter | E |
| Plenty of such to go hereafter | E |
| By our tracks we trow | B |
| We are for new feet now | A |
| - | |
| During the War | F |
Thomas Hardy
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